BRUTAL ATTACK
WEEK-OLD BRIDE’S SKULL FRACTURED JUnited Preeo Acwciation— By Site trie Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 4th August. A week-old bride, Mrs Patterson, aged 2 it years, who married a Cessnock miner, was brutally attacked on.the coalfields yesterday, her skull being fractured with a, hammer. Her assailant is alleged to be a man who-had resented her marriage to a rival.
ANOTHER CASE (Received sth August, 9.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Another case similar to that at Cessnock is reported in which a woman was battered with a hammer at Grafton, and her husband is dead with his throat cut. He is alleged to have committed suicide. The dead man is George Denny, aged GO years, and his wife, Jane, is in hospital in a critical condition.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 5 August 1929, Page 4
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124BRUTAL ATTACK Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 5 August 1929, Page 4
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