DRAMATIC OUTBURST
“WISH I’D KILLED YOU” WOMAN FOR TRIAL FOR TOMAHAWK ATTACK Press Association DUNEDIN, To-day. Elsie Clara Babich was committed for trial in the Police Court yesterday afternoon on a charge of assaulting Charles Wilfred Waldren so as to cause actual bodily harm. Waldren, who was found on his bed with wounds in his head, and his ear nearly severed by an axe, stated that he was a married man separated from his wife, and had lived three years with the accused. He awoke early on the morning of May 18 to find himself covered with blood. He called for assistance from his brother-in-law in the same house. He denied that he had ever threatened to “do for” her, but admitted blackening her eye on May 16. He had not attempted to take the accused’s purse from her or assaulted her before. His injuries supported his evidence.
The police stated that the accused went to the station saying that she bed hit Waldren with a tomahawk. Later, in Waldren’s room, she said to him. “I wish I had killed you.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 376, 9 June 1928, Page 1
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181DRAMATIC OUTBURST Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 376, 9 June 1928, Page 1
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