MURDER AND OUTRAGE

Dunstan Times, Issue 1167, 11 July 1884, Page 3

MURDER AND OUTRAGE

A. horrible mur.ler, the effect of drink im I lust. combined, his teen disc 'vered in Kairne township, near Adelaide. According to the details furnished Viy the witnesses at the inquest, Mai caret Buxton, whose dead Body was found on Ilth June, was drinking in the Millers’ Arms, Nairne. on the nre vinus evenin';, in company with a railway laborer. John Woo (head. The deceased was 65 years q'd. on I was locally known as' “ Pegey.” Sh» and Woodhead sat in the liar until b twee- 7 and 8 o’clock in the evening, w hen the landlord told her to go home, as she was m ull the worst of liquor. Wood, h-ad hail hem sitting beside her with one arm ronn * her neck, and when she started ,for hj one Woodhead accompanied her. A Jew minutes laierth-y were seen staggering a'ong the road, Woodhead having both his arras round her. The woman was heard ■o evcaini. “Oh no, don’t!” At about 9 o'clock Woodhead re-entered the pnblic- ■ Inman with his eye eutan 1 bleeding and bmh sides of his face damaged. He accounted for Ms i> j .ries hy saying that he had fallen down near a water trough. On. the next morning the unfortunate woman’s body was discovered lying inside the fence of a garden not far from the hotel She was quite stiff and dead, and her clothi a were torn and is arranged. The struggle must have boon a fearful one, as the top vail of the fence was broken, ami it is thought probable that the wretched woman had been clinging to it. The ground near the scene of the »utra >e Was torn upland her fingers were found clenching a handful of Mack soil. Hei faoi was fearfully scratche ’. A surveyor who happened to he camped near the spot on the night in question, which was a very dark one, heard a noise at about 8 pm. proceeding from the place where ths body was found. At the time bethought that two cats were fighting ; but nponjheinginformed of the circumstances he considers that the noise wnsornsed by a person who was being suffocated. A post mortem examination of the d< c ased showed that all the organs w re healthy, except the lungs, which we.re filled with blond. There were bruises on the hip and the lower portion of the right thigh- A 1 handkerchief pressed over them >uth wotdd j account for the state of the lungs. Woodj head has been committed for trial, hail refused. .

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