A CANTERBURY TRAGEDY.
FARMER'S WIFE MURDERED. NO TRACE OF MURDERER. [llY TKMJGHATH. —I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurcb, This Day. News reached the Christcbarch police this morning that (he wife of J. A. Lilley, of Mayfield, had been foun r J dead under circumstances pointing to murder. She left home yesteday evening prresumably to visit a neighbour. Het husband, who is a farmer, was absent. When ho returned she wa* still awßy. Later he became alarmed and mad* seurcb. He lound his wife lying among the scrub six chains from the house. She was dead and bad a ghastly wound in the head. A sledge hammer lyin>> beside the body h<»d evidently been used by the murderer. Mr Lilley found no othor person in the neighbourhood. Early to-day the superintendent and a detective went out to Mayfield in a motor '•ar to investiagte the circumstances of the tragedy. Mr Lilley is a well-known and respected farmer. He says, hj« has no knowledge of any person likely to attack his wife.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 612, 18 October 1913, Page 5
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167A CANTERBURY TRAGEDY. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 612, 18 October 1913, Page 5
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