SAVAGE LODGER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 7, 19 December 1911, Page 5

SAVAGE LODGER.

ATTACKS HIS LANDLADY WITH A RAZOR. CAROTID ARTERY EXPOSED. , (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, December 18. This afternoon, a man named James Gibbons attempted to murder Mrs Eliza McKenzie, a married woman, living at 110, Queen Street, Sydenham, by cutting her throat with a razor. Gibbons, who was a lodger at the bouse, was resting in bis room while Mrs McKenzie and two friends were playing cards in the kitchen. Mrs Gibbons went through and invited Gibbons to come and have some dinner, when he suddenly rose up, knocked her down, and produced a razor, with which he inflicted a wound in her throat. She screamed for help, and the others in the house, a married couple, came to her assistance, and pulled the man away. Mrs McKenzie got up and rushed to a neighbour’s house, where she was followed by Gibbons, who again attacked her ' and inflicted another wound on her chin and hand. Gibbons was tackled by a couple of men. thrust out into the yard, and finally knocked out. The police were sent for, and Gibbons after a struggle was taken into custody by Constable O’Connor. T'ho woman is likely to recover, though the wounds she received are serious, the carotid artery being exposed.