Details of the Blairgowrie Murder.
Further details have been received from Baroaldine of the murder of Mrs Tuckerman by her husband,’ who owned Blairgowrie station. It appears that Tuckerman had bean suffering from religious mania. He had declared that he was King Solomon and must offer human sacrifice. His wife, to whom he was devoted, undertook to manage him An employee heard him say to his wife: “I am going to kill you, for, much as I love you, you must go to Heaven.’ ’ Mrs Tuckerman then ran out of the house, and Tuckerman,: armed with a rail, followed. . - The employee tried to intercept him, and was knocked down. The man then saw Tuckerman strike his wife on the head. The murderer then returned to the house, and expressed the intention of getting a razor to kill the employee, who fled for assistance. Tuckerman now boasts of having killed his wife, and saya be regrets not having killed bis three children.
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Manawatu Herald, 16 June 1903, Page 2
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161Details of the Blairgowrie Murder. Manawatu Herald, 16 June 1903, Page 2
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