Murderous Assault
(By Telegraph) Wellington, April 24. Further particulars of the assault at Eltham by John Daines on his wife show that an attack was made with a knife, there being a terrible gash on the side of the woman’s face, down into the neck, but her face is also bruised and broken in a way which leads to the supposition that she was also struck with a blunt instrument. There are several stabs on her face and as far down as her breast, so that her assailant must have kept at his work for some time. Daines, who is a very dark man, speaks in a broken sort of way. He has been about Eltham for some years, and ib is understood that he and his wife did not live on the besb of terms. Evidently there had been a quarrel on Thursday, but of this no particulars are available. Though the woman is still alive she is in a precarious condition. There is a family, but several members are grown up. In her depositions Mrs Daines charged her hueband (who has been arrested) with the assault.
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Southland Times, Issue 14329, 25 April 1899, Page 2
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188Murderous Assault Southland Times, Issue 14329, 25 April 1899, Page 2
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