FOUL PLAY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 41, 18 October 1913, Page 5

FOUL PLAY

A CANTERBURY MURDER. WOMAN BASHED TO DEATH. £Per Press Association.] Christchurch, October 18. News reached the Christchurch police this morning that the wife of j. A. Lillcy, Mayfield i eighty-one miles south of Christchurch), had been found dead in circumstances pointing to murder. She left home yesteiday evening presumably to visit a neighbour. Her husband, a farmer, was absent, and when ho returned she was still away. Later he became alarmed, and made a search and found his wife lying among scrub six chains from the house, dead, with a ghastly wound in the head. A sledge hammer lying beside the body had evidently been used by the m urderer. Lilley found no other person in the neighbourhood. Early to-day the Superintendent and detectives wont out to Mayfield by motor car to inves-

tigate the circumstances of the tragedy. Lilley is a well known and respected farmer. He says lie has no knowledge of a person likely to attack his wife