EAR CUT OFF WITH AXE

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1928, Page 15

EAR CUT OFF WITH AXE

WOMAN CONFESSES ATTACK MAN IN AN UNCONSCIOUS STATE. DUNEDIN COUPLE’S QUARREL. By Tekeraph,—Press As*oclatie». Dunedin, May 18. Early this morning a woman, aged 28, walked into the North Dunedin police station and reported that she had attacked a man with an axe. The police went to a house at 162 King Street, and there found Charles Wilfred Waldren, a married man, 33, sitting on a bed with his head badly injured. The bed was covered with blood and Waldren’s injuries were being tended by a relative. The man was" removed to the hospital. One ear was cut off and there were other severe head injuries. An argument is reported to have ’caused the assault.

The woman was charged in the Police Court this morning with assaulting Waldren, so as to cause actual bodily harm. Her left eye was blackened. A week’s remand was granted and her name was suppressed in the meantime. Bail was refused as the police state# the man was lying in tho hospital unconscious. Accused was a married woman separated from her husband and living with Waldren.