"TO-DAY YOU DIE!"

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15867, 13 December 1923, Page 8

"TO-DAY YOU DIE!"

fIANLY RAZOR INCIDENT.

ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY.

WilHam Whyley (29), a baker, was remanded at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, by Mr Justice Campbell, on a charge of maliciously wounding Agnes Simpson, at Manly, on October 10, with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

Accused pleaded guilty. In a statement from the dock, accused said that he boarded with Mrs Simpson, and eventually ho got to love ner. He knew he was doing wrong, lie went to Queensland, and she followed hirn. A fit of jealousy came over him. He would, he said, be the last man in the world to harm a 'hair of her head.

The facts in support of the Crown case were that accused walked into Mrs Simpson's house and said to her, "You have turned me down, but I still lovo you." He (hen grabbed her by the throat and arm, declaring, "Today you die!" Wliyiey, who had a razor in his possession, slashed the woman about the face, arms, hands, throat and back. She was in hospital for three weeks. In the course of the- struggle between accused and Mrs Simpson, Alfred George Bond, a bread carter, came upon the Mcene, and Whyley rushed at him with the razor. Bond threw his basket at Whyley and went for assistance. On his return lie found the woman lying huddled up, and accused had made Iris escape. He was pursued by William Arnott Miller, a retired fanner, and another man. He kept the pair at hay with lite razor, but was eventually captured the same evening.