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Southland Times, Issue 1071, 11 December 1868, Page 3

THE MURDER AT NEWTOWN, NEAR SALE. (From the c <$pp"9 L&ttd Guardian,' Not. 12.) Perhaps the most terrible tragedy it I has ever been our lot to chronicle occurred on the road between Sale and Stratford yesterday. About four o'clock p.m., information reached the police that a man named^ Cuddihy had murdered his wife and a man whom he regarded as her paramour, and then committed suicide by drow ning himself. It appears that the murdered man and woman were proceeding on their way from Stratford to Sale, in a spring-cart, about four p.m. The woman was the wife of Cuddihy, from whom she had been for some time seperated. On approaching the vehicle in which the parties were driving, Cuddihy drew a pistol, and deliberately shot the man, whose name was Crofts, and the woman who was riding with him. He then cut the throats of both, inflicting such wounds on the man as caused instantaneous death, and so frightfully wounding the woman as to leave little hopes of her recovery. Having, as he supposed, committed this double murder, the wretched man rode back to a waterhole, about half a mile from the spot, and drowned himself, A boy who was passing and saw the murder, was the first to give information to Constable Feeley, who procured the assistance of Mr Murdoch, Crown lands ranger, and immediately repaired to the scene. There a frightful spectacle presented itself. The woman was found on the ground in a state of insensibility, the blood flowing copiously from several wounds in her neck. The man was quite dead, his throat having been cut all though, and three balls had been fired into his head. The woman was taken to the hospital, where she received every attention. The body of the deceased man was removed to Mr Stuart's hotel. On the intelligence reaching Stratford, all the inhabitants turned out to a man in search of the murderer. Having scoured the country for several miles in various directions, Constable Eeeley and Mr Murdoch, after a search of an hour or two, came upon the body of the perpetrator of the foul outrage, having traced his steps to a waterhole, at the bottom of which he was found by Mr Eeeley, who stripped and discovered the suicide in some fifteen feet of water. The body of the murderer was removed by the police to the same hotel to which" his victim was conveyed, and the bodies were placed side by side upon the floor. It is generally supposed that jealousy was the cause of the murder. The parties had been separated for several years, during which time Cuddihy had been heard to utter threats of an alarming kind.

Auction Sales and Notices. BOOKS AND FANCY GOODS SUITABLE POB CHRISTMAS PRESENTS ! ! ! HE. OSBORNE has received instructions , from Mr E. Rose, to sell by Auction, on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, at 2 o'clock, on the premises, corner of Tay and Dee-streets, a large quantity of surplus stock, comprising Works by the best Authors, and a lot of Fancy Goods suitable for Christmas Presents. SATURDAY, 12th DECEMBER, At Twelve o'clock. POTATOES ! POTATOES ! ! HE. OSBORNE has received instructions . from Messrs. M'Pherson & Co. to sell by auction, at their stores, Esk-strett, on Saturday, 12th December, at 12 o'clock sharp — Q A BAGS TASM ANIAN POTATOES, ex Ov/ Jane, from Hobarton. Also, at the risk of former purchaser — 5 Bags Potatoes — 2 Cases Apples. H. E. OSBORNE, Auctioneer. SATURDAY, 12th DECEMBER. AJ. SMYTH & CO. are instructed to sell . by Public Auction; on Satubdat, the 12th ikst., at 1 o'clock, the right to REFRESHMENT BOOTH, on the Race Course, for the day of the forthcoming Race 9, 2nd January, 18K9. The purchaser to leave the Booth in a state of good repair, for the Annual Races, to be held on the 18th and 19th Feb., 1869. A. J. SMYTH & CO., Auctioneers. Invercargill, Dec. 8, 1868. THURSDAY, 17th DECEMBER. CATTLE SALE AT GUMMIE'S BUSH. JSURMANhas been instructed by D. M. n Cameron, Esq., to sell by Auction, at Hopcroft's Yards, Gtimmrie's Bush, on Thursday, 17th December next — Q/T HEAD QUIET CATTLE, Consisting of Dairy Cows, Heifers, and Steers. Also, — A FEW SADDLE AND DRAUGHT HORSES. J. SURMAN, Auctioneer.