TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 February 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[I'BH PIIESB ASSOCIATION.! A .MURDEROUS ATTACK. iSO.MIO MYSTERICRJS FEATURES. Auckland. Feb. 9. News has just been received of what appears to have been a murderous attack on the young wifo of a sheepfarmer at Oncwhero. fifty miles south of Auckland. The woman, Edith Emma Reals, was brought into the Auckland hospital this evening in a critical condition, and :u operation is now being performed to remove a bullet from her head. The woman is 31 years of age and she "c----sided with her husband and a laxly help (M iss Hunter) and three children on n sheep farm, seven miles from Onewhero in rough country, the nearest neighbour being a mile awav.

Leslie Keals, the husband, loft the house early yesterday morning to to droving, intending to bo absent all night, and'nothing untoward happened during the day. and the family retired at night as usual.

Kearlv this morning Miss Hunter went to Mrs Keals' room and was horrified to find her lying unconscious on her bod which was bloodstained. She was bleeding from a bullet wound in her head and her head and face wero also marked heavily as if by blows from n piece of wood, and a pice of wood bearing bloodstains was afterwards found in the room.

Two children, a girl aged four and a boy aged two, wero playing about in the room. An infant five weeks old which bad been in lied witlf Mrs Keals bad completely disappeared and no trace •' f it has yet been found. The whole affair has, many mysterious features.