GHASTLY SIGHT

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 21, 20 August 1928, Page 6

GHASTLY SIGHT

BLOOD-SOAKED ROOM. '

.THROAT CUT.

SYDNEY, August 8

In a. second flbdr room of a squalid house in Kent Street there was shocking evidence to-day of a man's struggle after Ills throa and. one of his wrists had been slashed. A single bod was saturated with blood, and ( there were wide patches of blood on the floor and wa).*i. A bloodstained razor was found near the man.

The authorities do not believe that the man was assaulted, although the victim, who told the police that his name was George O’Neill, and that .he was a,labourer, maintained that ho had hot used the razor himself, but someone else had wielded it.

The police received their first information of tl|e incident when a lodger in the house entered Clarence Street station and related what he had seen- Constable Taylor found O’Neill sitting on the floor, his back against the wall for support, with the razor near him. His head was bowed, thus closing the wound in his neck. The police state that if ho had been lying on the floor, with the wound open, he would have probably died. TEARS AT WOUND. The Central Ambulance rushed O’Neill to Sydney Hospital where doctors found that the man’s) life had been saved by the razor missing the jugular vein, the wound being almost perpendicular.- Tendons oi tho left wrist had also been cut. While O’Neill’s wounds were being dressed, he suddenly thrust his lingers into the gash, and desperately tried to make it larger by tearing through the flesh- Force then had t 0 bo used to control him.

The police were informed that O’Neill slept in a ground floor room, and that the room in which ho was found was not the one he occupied.