TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1915, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[i'Jilt I'HESS ASSOCIATION.] MAN DROWNED. Auckland, This Day. Frederick Farley, aged 58, proprieLor u( ii boarding house ab Karokare, was drowned while fishing oli : the rooks on Hie beach. His son Frederick, aged 21, made a gallant effort to save him but failed. A FATAL FALL. Alexander McKenzie, a wli art-lab-ourer, fell from the staging on the collier "Waitoirio into the water, striking liiis liead on the bulk Heavily and sustaining injuries resulting in his death while being conveyed to the hospital. THE EAMAItAMA TRAGEDY. Auckland. This Day. A sensational development has occurred in connection with the shooting <>l' Thomas Perry at Ramanuna early on Saturday morning. Oliief-DeteotivQ .VlcMalion and Sergt-Detectivc Mollis arrested Mrs Amelia Perry, widow of deceased at 2 p.m. yesterday at Ramaraina. ami charged her with the murder. She- arrived by the train last night. Mrs Perry is 31 years of age. Up to the stage oi her arrest, the somewhat extraordinary feature of the Kamaraina tragory, was Ilie composed manner of Mrs Perry. She had gone "about her work, and tliere was little n her demeanour to suggest that a tragedy so recently had taken place beneath her roof. When arrested elio accopted the new.s quietly and proceeded to attire herself for' the journey. Mrs Perry was allowed to bring her baby fjjrl and her two year old boy to Auckland, droused them, entered the motor car which had been driven uj) to the hack door. Then her stoicism broke down and she began weeping. Accused was lodged for the night in the police colls and the two young children placed in the care of a matron. Arrangements have made for the care oi the other children. .Mrs Perry was charged with murder and remanded days. RETURNED SOLDIER KILLED. Watiganui. This Day. The body of Corpl Comyiis Young, a man just returned invalided from the Dardanelles, was found on the railway line near Okoia early this morning, ft is supposed that deceased must have fallen from the train on Saturday night unnoticed, and probably was killed i«istantly. Deceased loft with tlio main body, and was invalided on aocount of deafness. He was well known and very popular, and his terrible end caused a great .shock.