STABBING AFFRAY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 56, 4 May 1928, Page 6

STABBING AFFRAY

iVIARRIED MAN AND GIRE. "I have spent a lot of inditey on her; and I find sh e has been going out with someone else," was the. remark said td have been made when Joseph Eustace (48), an engineer, was arrested for tlie alleged wounding of Winifred Vaughan (24) ,in St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. not guilty, he was sent for trial, at Clerkenwell ciiarg,ec{ with attempting to murder her by stabbing her with a penknife in the chin and cliest. Mr Gwatkin, prosecuting, said Eustace was a married man, separated /from his wife and family, and had tried to get Miss Vaughan to liv e with him. She had refused. A riiedical officer said Miss Vaughan was in hospital, suiferlhg ifom a very hervdus condition. She had several wounds, the wotst behig one in the armpit. A meat porter, of Risilighill Street, said 'he was in St. John's Square arid saw , Eustace put his arin round a girl and heard tier scream. He Ithen saw the man with his right arm raised, clasping, an open penknife in his hand. He next saw ;the young woman on the ground and the man aiming blows at her. Witness ran over to them and .dragged the man froim the woman, Who was bleeding i from the chili.