RAZOR SLASHING.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18631, 9 May 1932, Page 8

RAZOR SLASHING.

TWO SEAMEN INJURED. SCUFFLE IN HOTEL YARD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sunday. Severe cuts on the neck and head were received by two unemployed seamen early on Saturday evening when they were Involved in a scuffle with another man who it is alleged was armed with a blade razor, in the yard of the City Hotel. The two wounded men are Owen Mulholland, aged 27, and Cornelius Clark. Both were admitted in a weak condition owing to loss of blood, but it was stated by Iho hospital authorities this evening that they were progressing satisfactorily. It Is thought that Mulholland and Clark, and at least three other men, went into the yard leading off the bar. After - a -short argument, it is stated one man suddenly took a razor from this pocket, opened it, and swung it In front of Mulholland. The razor first struck the front of the latter’s peaked cap, penetrated it, and indicted a wound.about six inches in length, running from his scalp to his forehead, somewhere near his left eye. Mulholland’s mate, Clark, then apparently went to the injured man’s assistance, but he too received a slash with the razor, which inflicted a deep cut in the left side of the neck. Then, according to one eye-witness, a man in the bar, who had seen the affair, rushed into the yard, and jumped at the man with the razor, striking him in the abdomen -with his knees and knocking him out. An arrest was made.

YOUNG MAN CHARGED. REMANDED TILL MAY 18. SERIOUS WOUNDS INFLICTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Two unemployed seamen were badly gashed about the head by a razor in the yard of the City Hotel on Saturday evening, and John Richard Anderson, alias James Pope, aged 24 years, a labourer, was charged to-day with wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. A remand was granted till May 18. The injured men arc Owen Mullholland and Cornelius Clark. Mullho'liand, who lives in Kent Terrace, had the hone of his head bared and an artery severed by a gash two inches long, -and when admitted to hospital was in a state of collapse from loss of blood. Clark, who lives in Taranaki Street, has a wound seven inches long across the hack of his head and neck, and is still in hospital, but is said to be making good progress, Mullholland was discharged from hospital yesterday. From accounts it -appears that some sort of .an argument arose, and that in a scuffle Anderson took a razor from his pocket and slashed at Mullholland, and that Clark went to Mullholiand’s assistance. A man who witnessed tlie affair from the bar rushed to the scene and struck Anderson in Hie face and stomach, knocking him unconscious.

The police were summoned and Anderson was handcuffed, and after superficial wounds to his face had been dressed at the hospital lie was taken to the Taranaki Street police station.