The Dunedin Tragedy.
THE INQUEST. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, This Day. The inquest on Mrs Clements was opened this morning. Constable Hickey said when Ross, the brother-in-law asked " What have you been doing Charley, have you killed her '? " Prisoner replied : " I have had plenty cause to do so." Later he told the constable that the woman had selfinflicted the injuries, but afterwards admitted that he stuck a knife in hia wife's throat, driving it in with a tomahawk. Prisoner, on his way to the pospital, alleged that his wife had been tampering with herself.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 483, 23 November 1897, Page 2
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94The Dunedin Tragedy. Hastings Standard, Issue 483, 23 November 1897, Page 2
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