ALLEGED ATTACK WITH AXE
MAN SERIOUSLY HURT CHARGE AGAINST WIFE [ Per Press Association ] AUCKLAND, April 27. Arrested early yesterday, Verna Galbraith, aged 25, was subsequently charged in the Magistrate s Court xvith assaulting Ernest Arthur Galbraith, her husband. The police obtained a remand to May 4. “I think it would be better for her own sake if she was kept in custody," said Detective-Sergeant P. Nalder. “She attacked her husband with an axe while he was asleep. She is in a very nervous state." Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M.: Has she any friends here? Detective-Sergeant Nalder said there were none. Mr. Jenkins: I am her husbands solicitor. This may be the outcome oi a maintenance case heard in this Court on Friday. Galbraith is very badly hurt, and is in hospital. The magistrate remanded accused and ordered that in the meantime she be kept apart from other prisoners.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 6
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