A SHOCKING AFFAIR.
«p MOTHER KILLED BY SON. INTERFERING IN FIGHT. [by telegraph.—fbess association.] Christchurcb, This Day. While attempting to separate her son and another man who Were fighting Mrs Thompson, living in Durham street, received a blow which ended fatally. The son, Alexander Thompson, aged 23, and a man named Baxter, who lived in the house, quarrelled. Blows were struck and tbe woman going to interfere, it is alleged was hit by her son. She fell over, struck the sharp edge of a fruit case, and ruptured a varicose vein, and bled to death. The son, who was arrested on a charge of murder, said he struck at Baxter, who dodged the blow, which fell on his mother. Baxter says the son deliberately struck his mother when she interfered.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 645, 21 February 1914, Page 5
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130A SHOCKING AFFAIR. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 645, 21 February 1914, Page 5
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