WOMAN’S DEATH
ALLEGED MURDER
vßy Telegraph—Press Association)
NEW PLYMOUTH,,;iSept. 1C?
A woman Cora Alice Townsend, aged 43 is .alleged, to have been, murdered ri,n Fitzroy suburb early, this morning... She was severely -cut about the throat. ...
Constable^.,King of 1* itzroy was rung up at 2.45 a.m.. : . and > communicateU with Inspector Fraser and.. ;I)etectjve Meiklejokn,. jybo with, two - .constables went to a-house and found the -Wpnm.p, dead. The. bedy- was removed to .the morgue. •
A search was instituted and -outstations were advised. A.s a result, before, 10 o’clock an arrest was made in Urenui district by Constable Lapouple, of a man who will probably he brought before the court this afternoon.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1930, Page 6
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110WOMAN’S DEATH Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1930, Page 6
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