THE HORSHAM TRAGEDY.
HAY’S CONFESSION.
Melbourne, July 19
In connection with the murder of a fruiterer named Cox, at Horsham, Hay, who, together with Mrs Cox, was arrested and charged with having committed the deed, told the police that he had quarrelled with Cox, who accused him of always being drunk when he came home. He struck Cox several times with a toy gun, and then grasped his throat and held it for fifteen minutes, till Cox was dead. Afterwards he washed the dead face.
Mrs Cox admitted that Cox killed her husband. • The medical evidence showed that Cox had been strangled, death being accelerated by the weak state of his heart.
The police also overheard an incriminating conversation between the accused while they were occupying adjacent cells-
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 22 July 1909, Page 3
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128THE HORSHAM TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 22 July 1909, Page 3
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