MURDEROUS ASSAULT.
Melbourne, Nov. 4
A young man named Johnstone has been arrested on a charge of committing a murderous assault on three wdmen named Patterson in South Melbourne.
Johnstone had been keeping company with the younger woman, and her mother and elder sister remonstrated with him for insulting behaviour, whereupon, it is alleged, he . assaulted all three women with a bar of iron, Mrs Patterson, who is 76 years of age, is not expected to recover.
An old-age pensioner named William Tomkins, ot Palmerston Was found dead l,y his wife at midday on Sunday. Deceased,' who was nearly 86 years of age, luuDbeen in the : colony (i t years. Death was due to heart failure.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 6 November 1906, Page 3
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116MURDEROUS ASSAULT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3723, 6 November 1906, Page 3
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