Stabbing Affair at Feathcrsion.
On Friday night a man, evfdentlv t- v veiling, entered the Fmpire Hotel, Fentberstou. just before closing time, and asked for accommodation. Ihe main lights just being turned put, the man struck a match in the passage and thrust it into the face of a person named Dunn, who was about (o retire from *b« premises. The man thus assaulted ■ **••* u again seryetj jn that manner remarked iu... ‘ down, when
he would knock the ion... without more ado, the stranger, wuu
appears is named Henry Davis, drew a sheath knife and stabbed K Dunn on the right breast below the arm. The landlord, Mr Jae Smith, at once seized the man, and conveyed him to in ninu-cupied room iu the hotel, when th . nff nder made another thrust at the landlord, men at a man named Godfrey, who went t,i) the hotel keeper’s as.-iaUuce The man Davis, who is supposed lo be a dangerous lunatic, was given into the custody of Constable Smith, and conveyed by bint to Wellington oo Saturday,
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1892, 4 October 1886, Page 2
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175Stabbing Affair at Feathcrsion. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1892, 4 October 1886, Page 2
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