MOTORIST CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Stratford, March 19. . John Thomas Martin, a middleaged dairy fanner, of Pembroke Rd. a married man, with a large family, was arrested on a charge of the murder of a young man named ‘Thomas Hendrick, aged 19, who was found lying on the roadside within the borough at 7 o’clock last evening, and who succumbed before arriving at the hospital. There was a smashed push bicycle beside the victim, who was terribly injured, and signs were discovered that the body had been dragged about sixty feet, apparently by a motor vehicle, which had disappeared. After exhaustive inquries, Martin was arrested at midnight at his home. This morning the capital charge was made, and accused was remanded in custody for one week, bail not being asked for.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2861, 21 March 1925, Page 3
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130MOTORIST CHARGED WITH MURDER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2861, 21 March 1925, Page 3
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