STRUCK WITH AN AXE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6059, 4 November 1920, Page 2

STRUCK WITH AN AXE

WOMAN DANGEROUSLY INJU.HED AHKE3T OF HKR SON (Special to the DaiU Telejjrpph ) AUCKLAND. Kits, fllaj As the outcome of a quarrel with her son, Mrs Norah Spierpoint, of Henderson, wife of a tannery-worker, received a blow on the heod with an axe yesterday, and now lies in a dangerous state at the hospital; Her son, Frederiok, about 23, had been working on a farm until roeently, when he returued home. Yesterday his mother and he, according to the particulars the police have been able to obtain, quarrelled over some domestic matter, and it is alleged that he ran out, picked up an axe and struck his mother on the The sharp edge penetrated her brain, and she fell unconscious. The accused, sged 23, was brought up at the Police Court in the afternoon charged with causing actual bodily harm to his mother. Accused was remanded far a week.