WAS IT MURDER?.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 267, 26 May 1888, Page 4

WAS IT MURDER?.

si si-jnoL's iwlath ok a woman*. I ) viii u ii i i , tin- iKi t \ Aid! t unit: o clock on Sunday eu'iunn two -hoi I. -haip shuck 1 -, followed l)\ a lon}.j c>iu . as oi a v, oni.iii in moiLal ai;on\ , woi c heawl both at I >ai <j/i\ llle and M.mg.iw haie, a- thouuh pioceeding lioin the 1 1\ t i, v. lueh Hows Ho»e to the two township-. The (iiniiuiiis sound 1 - caused eoiisideiablc, f-pecu-liMon duiunj, the eail\ pait of Monday, whin the my-fen Web >ol\ed b> thedi--<o\ei\ on t lie bank ot tlieii\oi ot the bod\ ot Mis Man Meken/ie, diessmaker at !>io\\n and Campbell- stoic at ManUdwh.iie. The body had appaiently been in the w aim tor Mime Jiouis, ami hdd been loft by Ihe ebb tick', ft w.i 1 - completely (licsmml, and tiiecl(>thes weie o\ ci- Ihe head, w hile on ( he mouth was a lai<.»e wound, caused appaieill} by n blow, the I ion I teeth ha\ing -phi the uppei lip The Imdei ot the body w.i.s llemy '/ookse>, who <f<'i\e the alaim, and the lemains weie ie,mo\eii to the deceaseds Lite lesidenoe, wheio a lamp was found ttill bmniiifj, and (he slippei.s in fionl. of ihe lueplace, pisf ,t, they had no doulit been left b\ her on the pre\ious e\enin<i. It ti,ins|)iud that on the previous Sunday exeiiinn, [,\\q deceased attended Hunch accompanied by Mcssr.s Hoiking and llaidinu'. After chinch ,sho "walked p.ut of (he way home with xMr liaidint^ and leturned wifJi Mr J locking, lea\ inu, him at hit- ow u w hicii is but a .shoit distance trom her own iL'bidence. Thoie is (jrcat excitement heie o\er the a'laij, and tiie gcneial o]>inion is* that the woman was muitleied. About a couple ot months aijo, on reluniing horn ehuieh, Mis iMcKen/ie found some men in licl house who tan away after dc^tloyin l^• -omc clothing, and since that occurrence she has been in cm cat botlily teai , though slio nc\cr mentioned the cause of her alaim. Her hiihband, tiom whom she was separated, is believed to be winking on the punfields abouii here. At the inquc-l on deceased slnxly to-day, an open veidiet of " L^ouud drowned" wan ictui-ncd, the jury not boiny; satisfied that the occurrence svas accidental. There is 1 a stiong- impicssion that leceapcd had met with a violent- death.

"Stand .-bill, gm'nor, or I'll blow yer brains out,," g\o\\ led a burglar, pointing a six-shooter at a sniveling household er'h head. "J haven't pot, nny," sighed the ratepayer, " or 1 shouldn't hate come down heic at the instigation of my wife. She's pot the brains. Interview her, there's a good follow.'' A man need only hell one oil-wel to be a holusalor.