J. P. COURT.

Western Star, Issue 824, 8 March 1884, Page 2

J. P. COURT.

Fbidat, 7th Mabch. ; (Before J. W. Chapman, J.P.) X' MALICIOUSLT. WOUKJDIKG. V f . Albert Noma, on remand,"*was ~charged with that he did" on lawfully, maliciously and felopiggglT, ad ibis wife Harriet Ann Norris, bj stabbing her in the lace and hancls- With ia.’ Accused, who. plea id not guilty," was undefended. Hr - Inspector ■ Buckley cdoduirtedr the prosecution. The following.eridmeo was ‘ [taken ‘"V ' ‘ . ... Sergt. Rutledge deposed: On the26th of . February at 4 ,p,jn., X syaa calhwlj to. Hanigt I Norris. ,I, saw her first in .he Carriers* ’Aynas [lTotel, When Dt. YoUng was attending tocher. Her face! hands and- dreis wore cotered wjth,-. ' lblood, ; ,,From what^hs;tuld ; me,l smite, her residence in Elizabeth itireft!" When* I ’arrived there' accssed was sweeping the fflssi of the sitting roona. I chawed him, with »tabibing; and wounding his wife, and arrested Ihim. In answer'to the cliarge ha said * “ She made a drive it me with the knife. I drov* it off. It went in to her. I was cutting tobacco with the knife at the time. Ido not remember whether I laid the knife down on the table or that she took it out of my liands.” Wheni arrested him, both his hands were [covered with blood;-ahd there was a little blood on the ino knife upon himl* ‘every! iSanih in the house and garden, but could find.no-trace of Jhe^kijife. | "By'inspector examine I thodoor also. There was blood on the door step which [appeared to bf *fresh. The-cljii\ l’s piasfora [(produced, covered with blood) I got from Mrs Norris,. She took it off. the child. I got the child's dress (produce i) fr6m Mrs Norris at the hospital on 3rd inst. By HistVorship l :- Accused mighh’diav* had some drink when I arrested him, but he was not drunk. .•••■> fS , f F , : Harriet Ann Norris, being sworn, deposed i Accused is my husband. I re-ide in Elizabeth street, Riverton. On 28th of February last my husband came from Otautsu in the morning. He looked very peculiar when he earn* home and was quarrelsome. He had a lonionadebottle full of whiskey .in his pocket He poured aut some in two tumblers. He,drank his lot; I only took a little drop. Ho said lie was : hungry And I inado; him iphia dinner, but he would not take it. I eooked some more dinner about an hone afterwards, but he upset the table, and he swept the pieces pul. He than asked, me to go for a sliilling’n worth of whisky. I'’ paid for it myself. He drank that.. At his request I got another shilling’s worth of whisky and ho drank that aln. I only lasted it. Me waa kissing and loving me at the doorwithhisam round my neck. He struck me on the fa"*,' but I could not say whether it was with his fist or a.weapon. Ho was standing iff,; front of me at the time. I was, knocked down with the blow and rond-red if sensible, but I felt bring stabbed with a knife on both hands, across the nose, on the temple, and in the eye. Whm I was knocked down he knelt on the ground an I stabbed me. I Haiti, Fed, let me up { you’re killing me.” When I got up I ran down the street and mrtamsn named Vaughan and I asked him to go for the doctor or police, lam not sure which, i 1 then went to the Carrier’s Ann* Hotel,, and Dr Young soon afterwards arrived and attendel to my injuries. I was removed to the hospital'! the same evening. 1 came out of the hospital on Tuesday. The wounds in my eye and on my nog- and hands are the effects of accu<ed*a assault. lam not able to use my. band vet. The clothes produced are those I was Wearing. The Mood thereon came frbsnmy wounds. I bled very much, and felt very weak. Two or three w.-eks ago my husband threatened ihat he would “ spoil 3 , my ; prettyt face foy .TOO.*’j That wan because I had left Ipm. , I gave him--' ho provocation to assault rhe, and no angry word* passed between ns. He wanted to pick a quarrel with me. Previous to my being at-uok I did nor see him with a knife in his hands. His statement that wh4rt lie was ea - ting tobacco I made a drive at him is not true, . My hu-bond had had a little drink when he struck me, but he was perfectly conscious of what I e was doing. There was only my two children in the house at the dime, aged 4 years and'l6 montlis respectively: *' ■- J. Ynughan ,dcp>sed: On 28th of last »nonth I was standing in front of idle Carrier’s Arms Hotel, when I saw.a woman whom I believe to be Mrs Norris come out of Elizabeth street aa fast as she could, With a chil l in her arms and' one clinging to her dies*. She called out to mo “ For G- ip’s s»ke go for the Sergeant." I wvnt-towards her t« see what was the matter, I saw she'was'ble ding profusely about ths face and seemed badly cut about the temple. She asked m - again to go for the police as the we* getting very weak. She said her “old man ” hat stabbed her. with a knife. I accompanied the. Sergeant t i the ' house where accii-sed was, and I was preso t • when the Sergeant arrest edhiiti. Accused Was not drunk. Dr Young: A bout 4 p.m. on 28th of last month I was called upon to atten t Mrs Norris at the Carriers’ Arms Hotel.' When I went inT found her face and drr?s smeared with blood. She was suffering from a cut if inch long between the left thumb and'forefinger about If inch in depth ; a out across the inner side of loft wrist if inch long, finch deep; a pri. kon the inner side of the right eye; a cut half an inch long over the same

eyebrow, penetrating to thobone at one extremity; a cut across the nos*; slab on back of right finger, ami cut o» three inner fineere 0 f ett m9 hand. On dressing the wounds at the the wark of a knife on, Ike rlgbi-wde of Ifone of the woundt wero foriouy • except the one Kef ween the; tboittb, nnd forefinger of left' hand, whwKlsrjwre Ik-Tery it, might nuw bleeding or lockjaw. The' wounds appeared to hare been paused by a penknife. Had the wound on the hand not been attended fct ifampdhtfly, the consequeners Would hare Offtti aerious through bleeding. I did not con'ri&yhw life in danger at anv time. She left the hospital against, ny adtice, but she is still under treatment. , Mrs Norris (recalled) i My husband was ii the habit of carrting it penknife- I never knew him tobe without one. _ Iri rep'y to the usual question, accused said he had nothing to say. He was then eomxniMed te take his'trial at the next sitting of tike Supreme Court »t Invsreargill. t • r--.f ■ '* ~ :