The Dunedin Murder
— — ' ♦— . (n» vhitbd »bm AMocuTioir.) Dvxn>nr, This Day. .-■ The adjourned inquest on the body of the woman Hancock was held yesterday afternoon. A neighbor named Anne Feidl gare evidence that the deceased told her Pearce had stabbed her. Witness bathed and drtsited her woand, and told Pearce he ought to go for a doctor, but he did not go. Witness asked Pearce about the stabbing, and he said they had bad a few words, and he done it in a passion. Witness went to the house because Pearce came and asked for i assistance. Another witness gave evi> dence, in cross-examination that after Mrs Pearce (the woman Hancock) died, there was some talk among the women about the knife. One said, "If deceased has been stabbed, the knite ought to bo done away with," and, Pearce taking something from the mantlepiece and putting it in his pocket, said, 'can I put it in your house.' I said; * Oh, yo» cannot put anything in my house." He went away. . ; .• .. ■■-.'■■-■ ■■■,■.. Owen Pe»rce, a; contractor for road works, committed suicide by hanging, at Macetown, in the ; Lake County to-day. He had been drinking. IJe leaves a, i> wife and nine children.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1, 5 January 1884, Page 2
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200The Dunedin Murder Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1, 5 January 1884, Page 2
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