AUCKLAND MURDER MYSTERY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2279, 13 October 1914, Page 4

AUCKLAND MURDER MYSTERY

DECEASED'S HUSBAND EXAMINED (By Telesxaph—Pieea Ataooiatlon.i : Auckland, October 12. An inquest on the body of the married woman, Prances Marshall, who was found brutally murdered in a lane off Nelson Street two weeks ago, wa6 resumed to-day. . . ■ ■ Frank Marshall, husband of the deceased, stated that be was a fish curer, and he was absent from home two or three nights weekly. His wife was a' steady woman and drank very little. They bad been married twenty years, and lived happily. Asked to account for some marks on his wife's face, Marshall admitted they had little tiffs. He once hit her with the back of his hand. There was a little jawing, and once he hit her on the nose. He denied knowledge that her nose was broken. He was asked: "Is it a fact that you were aware that this woman bad been living a questionable life for some time?" Marshall replied: "I distinctly say I did riot." A boy stated that ho saw a man ana a woman together near the scene of the crime shortly after ten o clock at night. The woman was wearing a hat similar to that of thp deceased. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to shock and" haemorrhage caused'by wounds inflicted' by somo person unknown.

Commissioner Richards is expected to return to town from tho South Island to-day.