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That brings me to the only other three points in
this case.
Let me take the circumstances in which these wounds
were inflicted.
We have the widow's evidence "My husband's younger
brother was sitting down in the kitchen and the little boy
was beside him. I was making puddings that morning" and it
is not altogether surprising that the little boy stopped
playing with his younger brother and came in to see what
the pudding tasted like. He got a bit of it and was sitting
there eating it. Then there was a quarrel. The little boy
said in the first place there was, then there was not and
then he says "there were 'high words' but I don't know what
they were talking about."
We have heard from the widow that there was a quarrel
about 40 cents worth of pork, but we have also been told
that there were deeper things behind this and sometimes it
takes a little spart to set off a large explosion. It is
said here that the immediate cause of the quarrel was the
purchase of 40 cents worth of pork. Then the little boy
said "Step-Mother, uncle has a chopper." Just at or about
that time the step-mother heard words from next door
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where the uncle was. "I will get this chopper and I will
cut you to death." The small boy rushed out and the widow
did not see what happened because she was still busy in
the kitchen, like all good house-wives, tending to her
cooking.
when she did go to see what it was all about she
found this. Her husband was bleeding profusely. After that
she saw three heavy blows with this chopper struck. Her
husband fell to the ground. She had great courage, she
bundled the assailant into his cubicle, shut it up and