SERIOUS STABBING CASE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12467, 17 February 1909, Page 4

SERIOUS STABBING CASE.

..'.' -■•- : ■•■■'. ■;■:>...-,- S ' f United Press Association.] s Hamilton, Feb. 16. y A serious stabbing affray occurred £ here yesterday. It appears that -, laßt night the .police, called In at a ( boose and found a married woman ( named Lock lying seriously injured .. } by a wound in the abdomen. A doctor was called in and ordered her.removal to the hospital, The-husband was in the house when the. police ■* arrived, {and Lon/ being /questioned .» completelv denied having ejmmitted the deed! 'say ing : that about >ten . o'clook bis wifo, Wbnysaß: lyiug-pn. 1 the ooucu, complaiaed of being..-.- ill,, and shoWed ner husband the wound. He immediatelv went for a. doctor. : „ .: Loclr, was arrested : ion. suspicion , r. but maintains yiiis denial, ot the , affair. The wound, it is. thought,- -. was caused by, a knife, .-..which: pierced the intestines. The woman's condition is serious. Curious . crcumstances have occurred in connection with the Lock stabbing case. Mrs Look was waited • utitm by a Justice: of the Peace at . t the •hospital- this D?orhiDg, and re- 1 fused" 'to nia_3 any deposition re-. I garding the stabbing, replying in i answer- to ; a question tbat she had i nothing, to say. :Phe.-.w'as> pressed yto ■ say bow the incident happened., but steadfastly refused :to dp so. Lock is a painter by trade,', and is about 33 years of ages .Mis' Lock is about tr-ei- same age. -y "'■'., ..' ' ■ .. \ Neighbours interviewed ..alleged that the couple iived-very.unhap-/ pily, havingfrequent, quarrels. „-.-■ Lock is said to. be a. quiet sobei man, though 'subject tb fits of frenzy; They have been married seven years, and have six ohildren.. Although the affair took place between three and four o'clock a doctor was not called in i;i11_7.30, when the victim's condition became serious. Lock was before the Court on a charge' of wilfully wounding Agnes Lock: He was remanded till to-, morrow. „ ■' >■