ASSAULT WITH RAZOR
“COMMON DOMESTIC SQUABBLE” HUSBAND PROHIBITED , Press Association DUNEDIN, Today. In the Police Court today Henry John Dent, aged 63, charged with i assaulting his wife by slashing her i badly with a razor, was ordered to ! come up for sentence within 12 j months and take out a prohibition order. The police described the case as a common domestic squabble. Accused’s face was scratched in the disturbance, and becoming heated he took the razor from a chest of drawers and slashed his wife, who was taken io the hospital. ■ Counsel said accused had taken liquor, and returning home found his wife the worse for liquor. She attacked him and he took the razor to protect himself.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 11
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119ASSAULT WITH RAZOR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 841, 9 December 1929, Page 11
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