DOCTOR AND PATIENT.
MEDICAL MAN RECEIVES TWENTY-TWO WOUNDS.
Remarkable light was thrown at Stratford on the desperate attack alleged to have been made in a "Walthametovv- surgery on Dr Dcvi Dayal Saeun by Charles Vine, thirty-three, a baker, residing in Edward Road, Walthametow, who was committed for trial on the charge of attempted murder. Dr Sasun, a slightly-built Eurasian, with gold-rimmed spectacles and a neat, dark moustache, had been nearly a month in hospital, and he still looked weak and ill. According to the evidence for the prosecution, it- was one night after Vine's wife had left him that the baker went to call on the doctor, entered unannounced, locked the door, and without saying anything attacked him with a knife. "I am bcin<r murdered," shouted the doctor, aiid a male caretaker, five or ten minutes later, succeeded in getting into the room and grappling with. Vine, whom n© says he found holding the doctor in a corner and; stabbing repeatedly at his head and back. Failing to separate the- struggling men, the caretaker rushed out for assistance. He returned with two other men, who rescued Dr Sa«un from his assailant. The doctor's clothes were soaked with blcod. and he liad twenty-two wounds on the head, arms and back. " I meant to have taken his life; he has ruined mine," the baker is said to have exclaimed- when arrested. Singular evidence was given by Dr Sasun in crossexamination. He said he was called in in July to attend one of Vine's children. Vine had since complained to him about his conduct with Mrs Vine. About a month before Christmas prisoner save him a black eye at the surgery, the^housekeeper's wife being present. Did you go on your knees and ask bim to forgive you?— l asked him to let me go. Did you ask him to foroivo you?— Yes. Did you promise never to see his wife again?— l did. There had, declared the doctor, been no improper relations between him and prisoner's wife. He asked for forgiveness not for that, but meant when he used the words to ask Vine to leave off thrashing him. He had & photograph of Mrs Vine, which she bad given to him. Me had seen and spoken to her on ma ny occasions since the November thrashing, and she had been to his surgery several times. When Mrs Vine went away from her husband on January 13 she had. wired to witness to meet her, and he did go. He saw her at Charing Cross, and tience they went by 'bus straight to her mother's. Why did she telegraph to you to meet her? — Because *W Raid it was all through We el-!** bad left h?<v husband. The doctor added fhat Mrs Vine's mother would rvo<fc take her in, and she went into lodging at Earl's Court. He saw her there the day before the attack. He find siven bpr a scent bottles, but she refused to take it without .paying for it. He did not buy her a bat. "My only mistake," conolu<3«l Dr Sasun, " was beinsr friendly witV> a patent. There was never a word or Tova between us. She did not tell me eTie loved me. or that she would leave her husband for me. After the attack I did tef] the prisoner I would not charge him if lie would not touch rhe any nw>re. ] do not want to char**© him now." Th<? accused man, who pleaded not 'guilty, and reserved his defence, took a keen interest in the proceedings, particularly when Dr Saeun y&js in th^ n^i^^g. box. '
DOCTOR AND PATIENT.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 8618, 9 May 1906, Page 2
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