Extraordinary Assault Case
A MOTHER NEALY KILLED BY HER DAUGHTER. The Melbourne Argus of December 24 records the following extraordinary case of assault at Horsham : — "Last night a man named Clark, in the employ of Mr Stevens, brewer, on going home as usual, found that a woman named Mary Marquardt, who had been living with him as his wife, had been brutally assaulted, and was apparently in a dying state. The woman was senseless, but her daughter, who is 16 years of age, and who was engaged in dressing her wounds stated that she knew nothing about the affair. She had been, she said, in town, and on returning found her mother on the floor, the blood flowing from wounds evidently caused by her having been beaten about the head and body with an axe. The matter was immediatedly reported to the police and a doctor was sent for. From the state of the girl's clothes suspicion fell on her, and this morning she was arrested, and confessed that she had committed the deed. The injured woman has been removed to the hospital, and it is quite possible that her injuries may prove fatal.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 79, 8 January 1887, Page 3
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194Extraordinary Assault Case Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 79, 8 January 1887, Page 3
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