THE OTAHUHU ASSAULT.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13644, 8 February 1913, Page 6

THE OT AHUH U ASSAULT.

LARGELY WIFE'S OWN MAKING

[Unjcted Pbess Association.]

Auckland, Fob. 7; • Charles :^John Mahon was.cha-rged at -'fcfoo Police' Court with attempted.suicide and a«sat;ll on -Ins w:if c fit Otahiihu.- .Tlic-; evidence *showord that' his wife;'s"Tnjurics •consisted of two sniall eeaJp wounds. When tjhovrii th<? heavy tomahawk which J\iahon siakllieJia-d in^odj'a.he doctor saici Mahon' must have ■beeii'very careful to b.avo used that woapgjt,..' and caused wounds 60 triflingv^,^- '$'. ■/ '. Tlie "Magistrato. sa i id > ''■. he> conoluded tbat the. trouble/■■■;'\vp^£lfirg<i\y '0' the wife's ov/n making; '^?.^oxi&c<l, on.proTiifisipg gODfl beh aV,-sjni v, waifJ 'oonvictod, orderod to find -.sun-titj} otV£2oo- to .keep tLr© peace, and pay costs.■.'■,..'■■:■. ' ■>''■■