MURDERER’S ACT
AFTER KILLING WOMAN. (Australian Press Association:) SYDNEY. April 21. On being to-day sentenced to death for murdering a married woman, Airs Julia Hughes, on Alarch 4th, John Fade coal miner at Ccssnork. near Newcastle, told- tin Court that In* Ib'd had a .dispute with All's Hughes, whom he loved. H t > said he hit her on the liend with an axe. Then lie cut off his own hand, with the ob'-ect of bleeding to death, hut he recovered. The jury recommended him to mercy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1931, Page 3
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86MURDERER’S ACT Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1931, Page 3
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