STONED TO DEATH
MYSTERIOUS FUSILLADE FROM UNSEEN ATTACKERS IN DARKNESS. Police at Tow Law Co. Durham, are inquiring into a mysterious stonethrowing attack, in which one man was fatally injured and another seriously hurt. The dead man is Thomas Mather, 41, miner, of Brown's Houses, Inkerman, near Tow Law, and the injured man is Alec Hansome, 28, miner, of the same address. The men had gone out to attend to some poultry which they kept on the fells, and as they were talking there was a sudden fusillade of stones, and both were knoeked down. Mather was rendered unconscious. Hansome, in agony and bleeding profusely, crawled half a mile home to summon assistance. Mrs. Hansome, mother of the injured man, believes that the unseen assailants were stealing coal, and took the two men for watchers who guard the coal heaps. Mather died in hospital without regaining consciousness. He leaves a widow and five children.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 148, 15 February 1932, Page 6
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