A MURDEROUS ATTACK.
| FARMER'S WIFE SHOT. ! ... THE BABY DISAPPEARS. OCCURRENCE A MYSTERY. (BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, This Day. News has been receivad of what appears to have been a murderous attack on the young wife of a sheepfarmer named Leslie Keals, living at Oirewhero, fifty mile 3 Houth of Auckland. The woman was living with her hus band, a lady help (Miss Hunter), and three children, seven miles from Onewhero, in rough country. Mr Keals left home early yesterday morning to gv droving. The family retired at night as usual. Early yesterday morning Miaa Hunter went to Mrs Keals' room and found her lying on the bed unconscious, and bleeding from a bullet wound in the head, while the face was marked as it from blows. Two children were playing about the room, but the third, three weeks old had disappeared altogether and no trace of it has yet been found. The fhole affair has mysterious features. None of the neighbours are able to throw any light on the occurrence. The woman iB in the hospital. Detectives are now in tin district making enquiries.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 744, 10 February 1915, Page 5
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185A MURDEROUS ATTACK. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 744, 10 February 1915, Page 5
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