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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 24 October 1928, Page 7

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A SENSATIONAL CLIMAX. SYDNEY. Alleged to ’ have threatened to cut his wife’s throat with (a razor tod|iy, Alfred William Bo ness, 40 years, a returned soldier, of Cohhitty Avenue, Enfield, was subsequently found lying on the hack verandah of his horn© with a, bullet wound) in his head and deep gashes on ©ne leg and both arms. Boncss is a powerful man, 6 feet 2 inches in height. ' He appeared, to lose, his reason about 8 a.m., when, it was alleged, he had a quarrel with his wife, and seizing a. razor ho chased her through the house, at tho same time stating lie intended) ta cut her throat. Mrs Boness ran. into the bathroom and locked the door. A few minutes later she climbed' through the window and on reaching the blick yard she called to her next door neighbour, who 'went to her assistance. Tliio neighbour took Airs Boness and) her children into his home, and notified tho police. Then two revolver shots were iheardj - , and when the police arrived Boness was lying on a stretcher m the hack verandah, with blood flowing from wounds on both arms and legs, evidently caused by a razor which Was alongside him. A s Boness was being carried to the ambulance a revolver bullet fell from ’his waistcoat. There was a hoi© in theniaterial where the bullet had entered, hut it had evidently struck some hard substance in the man’s jacket and failed toi penetrate the flesh, ,