HORRIBLE MURDER.
: -■: ... Effects of Drink- ■ A.Man Kills His Wife and Four Children. '. - Afterwards Attempts Suicide. 1 '<'• "(TT SITED kESS ASSOCIATIO *.) j ' i ■ . . \ ■■ : : " Napier, This' B:jy :• ■A ! shocking murder'took place yds ter- . iUyat Ormondville, a 'setttemeVifin the \ i 70-mile bush, on' the Napier- Wood ville railway. A man named Edwards has •betoi on the spree, and while m" delirium cut the throats of his wife and four children, and afterwards attempted to cut h}s pwn, but only ; ( innicted ; 'sUght j wounds.' fed ward's 1 was arrested ' this morning' and "conveyed to the' Waipawa. » County Hospital ,'"wher6 the wound waa 'dressed, and taken back to Ormondvjlle ; for tho inquest. Edwards was a, "plate-, layeiv and addicted to drink. He. has %een twice before the Resident Magistrate, charged with lunaoy brought on 1# drinking, ami ha» ( been discharged from the asylum on a medical certificate. ■ i : - ■ ; . ; =• .. ;
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 61, 11 February 1884, Page 3
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143HORRIBLE MURDER. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 61, 11 February 1884, Page 3
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