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Northern Daily Mail Hartlepool Saturday 11 Aug 1934
Page 3 Column 3
ALLEGED KNIFE ATTACK
MAGISTRATE AND POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT
Herbert Charles DIMON (45), described as a carpenter, was remanded until Friday in custody at Wimbledon Police Court to-day charged with unlawfully and maliciously causing grievous bodily harm to Charles Edward HATTON, of Stratford Villas, St. Paul's Road, Camden Town, on August 10, by slashing him with a knife on the forehead at Dorien Road, Raynes Park.
P.C. SMITH said that on the way to Dorien Road he saw a man bleeding from the head and he told the man to get on a bus and go to hospital.
At Dorien Road he met DIMON outside a house. At the house the officer was handed a shoemaker's knife, which was bloodstained.
When he arrested DIMON and told him he would be charged, DIMON, he alleged, said, “I wish I had not done it,” and later added, “I will swing for that cuss yet.”
He was searched and two similar knives were found on him. He was wearing a bloodstained scarf.
Detective-Sergt.
LONG said that the wounded man was discharged from hospital, but
to-day he became worse and had to go back. The wounds were head
wounds, three inches long and down to the bone.
DIMON refused to
give his address, and his daughters also refused.
Mr. McBRAIN, the presiding magistrate, remarked that the case might develop into something very much more serious.