A PECULIAR CASE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2571, 4 July 1882, Page 4

A PECULIAR CASE.

[:?BBSB ABBOOIATION TBIiHSBAM.] OAMABU, July 3. IZhe tody of a woman, partly dreosed, wss fotnd in a oreek near Pibles yesteidsy morning by a man who is employed oa the water race. The body has been identified r.e ths.t of the wife ox Alexander Beattie. It is thought that the deceased and her husbicd were not living en good terms, and about u month ago Beattie was orres'od and bound over to keep the peace fur threatening to bum the houoe of a neighbor in whose houue he had found hie vtife. On returning home after being released he found that his wife hal disappeared, and she had not iinoo been he»i'd of. An i:-.qnost- was held to-day, but only the medical evidenoa was taken. Later.

'Hhepott mortem on the body of the vfoman found in a cretik near Fables was no's held to-day. A jury was empannellsd, and the evidence went to show that when the woman wis taken out of the water a handkerohief wits found to be tightly tied round her neck, and there was a wound in the throat and a bruiss on the face. A portion of the drew had blood stains on it. The police asked for an adjournment. The post mortem will take plica to-morrow;