SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
Whajtgarex, July 21
Mary Hatnmou, the middle-aged wife of Daniel Hammon, proprietor of the Huimal boardinghouse, was found iu the kitchen before six this morning with the blade of a small axe buried to the hair in the left side of her skull.
Her screams brought the boarders on to the scene, but the woman was then unconscious. There was no sign of the husband.
The doctors wihdrew the blade and removed the victim to the hospital. Her condition is hopeless.
The husband was subsequently found hiding among the timber stacks on the wharf and was arrested. The Hammons had three sons and one daughter, the eldest being fourteen. Hammon appeared at the Police Court charged with attempted murder and was remanded till the 29th inst.
The woman has since succumbed to her injuries.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1275, 23 July 1914, Page 4
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136SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1275, 23 July 1914, Page 4
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