WOMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18466, 18 May 1928, Page 4

WOMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.

badly injured man taken TO HOSPITAL; EAR WAS CUT OFF. (Special to the “Star.”) DUNEDIN, May 18. At four o’clock this morning a woman aged twenty-eight walked into the North Dunedin station and reported that she had attacked a man with an axe. The police went to a house at IG2 King Street and there found Charles Wilfred Waldren, a married man, thirty-three, sitting on a bed with his head badly injured. The bed was covered with blood and Waldron’s injuries were being tended by a relative. The man was removed to hospital with one ear cut off and 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, her name being suppressed in the meantime. Bail was refused, as the police stated that the man was lying m hospital unconscious. Accused was a marired woman separated from her husband and living with Waldren.