RAZOR USED

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 5

RAZOR USED

• v. ■ ■ ■ — • 'jA , To Wound Men

A SERIOUS CHARGE

'■PRISONER EXPRESSES REGRET

(Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A blood , stained razor and grey cap badly slashed and cov ered with blood were the principal exhibits in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when John Richard Anderson, alias James Pope, aged 25, a labourer, appeared • before Mr. E. Page S.M., and was subsequently committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of wounding Owen Mulholland and Cornelius Clark at the City Hotel on .May 7, with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

In the course of his evidence, Detective Murray said that accused made a statement in the course of which he said that Mulholland picked an argument with him in the hotel. Later on he and a big fireman waited for Mulholland outside the bar. Accused could not remember what happened from then on. He said he was a pretty bad tempered sort of fellow. He could not remember using a razor and did not know what happened. He realised the seriousness of what he had done and was sorry for it. He had been drinking heavily from the Wednesday to the Saturday night and at the time of the happening he was drunk. He was sure he would not have used a razor on another man if he had been in his right senses. He was quite satisfied that he alone ' used the razor.