MAN'S EAR SEVERED BY AXE

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1928, Page 13

MAN'S EAR SEVERED BY AXE

WOMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, June 9. 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. Complainant, who was found on his bed with- wounds, on his head and an ear nearly severed by an axe, stated that he wag a married man, separated from his wife, and had lived for three years with accused. He awoke early on the morning of May 18 to find himself covered with blood and calling for assistance from his brother-in-law, who lived in the same house. He denied that he had ever threatened to “do for” accused, but admitted blackening her eye on May 16. He had not attempted to take accused’s purse from her or assault her before his injuries were sustained. The evidence of the police witnesses was to the effect that the accused went to the ploice station, stating that she had hit Waldren with a tomahawk. Later, in Waldren’s room, she said to him: “I wish I had killed you.”