SLASHED WIFE WITH RAZOR.
MAN APPEARS BEFORE COURT FOLLOWING DOMESTIC SQUABBLE. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, December 9. In the Police Court, Henry John Dent, aged sixty-three, charged with assaulting his wife by slashing her body with a razor, was ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months, and to take out a prohibition order. The police described the case as a common domestic squabble. Accused’s face was scratched in the disturbance and, becoming heated, he took a razor from a chest of drawers and slashed his wife, who was taken to hospital. Counsel said that the accused had had liquor and on returning home found his wife the worse for liquor. She attacked him and he took the razor to protect himself.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 10
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