STRANGE OCCURRENCE. ARREST OF A HUSBAND. Oamaru, June 12.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 377, 15 June 1889, Page 4

STRANGE OCCURRENCE. ARREST OF A HUSBAND. Oamaru, June 12.

At an early hour this, morning, the police received information that Mrs Agnes Heywood, wife of \Y. H. Hey wood, residing on the Noith Road, had died suddenly, and that her death was owing to injuries inflicted by her husband. On this infoimabion, the husband was arrested about two o'clock this morning. An inquest was held to day, at which the evidence of a sister of the deceased went bo show that Ileywood had not been living on a cry amicable terms with his wife. It was shown that Ileywood had followed his wife (who was encchite) into her bedroom, and that to escape him, she had jumped out of a window, that he had afterwards struck the sister of the deceased, and that the latter was shortly afterwards seen lying on the floor, but the si-ter could nob say whether Hey wood struck or pushed her or' whether she fell. After the two women left tne house, 'M rs Hey wood was taken ill on the road. She, however, readied her bi other's house, and becoming unconscious, died f.hoitly alter. Two doctors were in attendance, and in their evidence they said all the organs of the body wero healthy, and that death must have been due to violence of some kind, a blow or a fall, but there were no marks on the body of the deceased. Death, they said, was duo bo compression of the brain, due to ruptuie of a blood-vessel. The police in their evidence said Heywood had admitted that he haJ pushed the deceased, and that she foil on the mat. The jury gave a verdict to the effect that deceased had met her death by violence, but how or in what way there was no evidence to show. Heywood vvas then discharged from custody.