POLICE BAFFLED
AUCEAND MURDER MYSTERY
WHITECHAPEL METHODS
RECALLED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
Auckland, September ,30,
The Coroner's inquest on Frances Marshall has been adjourned till October 20. The police up to the present are completely baffled regarding the solution of the tragedy.
Dr. Keller, who made the post-mortem examination, says the caso is reminiscent of the Whitecliapel murders. In addition to wounds on the head and face there weire twenty-five wounds in the chest, and tho woman was stabbed through tho lungs and heart. Marshall states that he had been married to deceased twenty years.. They had lived the whole of that' time in Auokland. They lived happily and she had been a faithful wife. He added that he land given the police a full account of his movements on Monday night. His wife left home to visit a neighbour about eight, and after 'caving tho neighbour's house called at a place close to the locality of tho tragedy about 10 o'clock. That was the last trace of her alive.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2269, 1 October 1914, Page 7
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169POLICE BAFFLED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2269, 1 October 1914, Page 7
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