Double Murder at Petone.

Manawatu Herald, 29 August 1896, Page 2

Double Murder at Petone.

Mr and Mrs Jones, who kept ft shop at Petone, near Wellington, were found murdered yesterday morning. Mr Jones was a man of sixty-five, and the wife somewhat older. He was formerly manager for Mr Plais« ted, ironmonger, at Hokitika and Christchurch. The couple kept a grocery store in Jackson -street and lived on the premises. They nad no family with them. , • Between 9 and 10 o'clock the previous night, Mrs Atkinson went for a tin of cocoa, but though a light was burning she could make no one hear, and going again yesterday morning in company with a man named Bosher, they discovered the * bodies of the victims. Mr Jones was found on the kitchen floor and Mrs Jones in the passage by the front door. She was lying in a pool of blood which at first gave rise to the repori that her. throat bad been cut, but a cursony examination faili to show any wound,

aha it is thought that she nidy have burst a blood vessel, through the ■hock, or. in her efforts in trying to •scape. Mr Jones had three stabs in the back. Nothing was taken from the house so far as known. James Shore, a well-known footballer, has been arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime.