SHOCKING MURDER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, 2 January 1900, Page 3

SHOCKING MURDER.

A WOMAN TOM I HAWKED. THE BUBBAND ABRESTED. HIB BTOBT DIBOREDITED. [CNITID PRBSB ABBOOIATION.I Dunedik, January I. A shocking muider was pomraitted at South Dunedin early on New Year morning. At about two o'clock Thomas Galloway called at the police station and told Bergt. Brown that his wife had been murdered by some unknown man at his house m Bradsham Street. Bis story was to the effect that the man broke into the bedroom and struck his wife. He struggled with the man and got him out of the bedroom into the passage. He was afraid to continue the struggle further, and, jumping out of the window, he called, the neighbors. On his return they found Mrs Galloway dead, and the man gone. The police, on examining the place, found, the handle of a tomahawk m the room, with blood on it, but the head has not been found so far. The polioe discredited the man's story, ana arrested him on a charge of wife murder. He has marks of blows on him, which he said he received m the struggle with the man. The theory of the polioe is that the couple quarrelled, and that the woman struck tier husband with an iron bar m the fire place, and that the man retaliated by using the tomahawk. The woman has no wounds on the body, but her head was shockingly knocked about. Thox^as Galloway is 61 years of age, and deceased was about 51. The woman some time ago was of intemperate habits, but of late she is said to have taken to drinking large quantities of chlorodyne. An inquest was formally held \ this afternoon, when evidence was given identifying the body, and the inquest was then adjourned.