MAN MURDERS HIS WIFE.
BATTERS HER WITH AN IRON. (Per PVess Association.) INVERCARGILL, June 28. Daniel Swan, a labourer, attacked his wife to-night in her house in Esk Strcst with an iron ami killed her. The couple had not got on well for years, and lately the murdered woman got a separation from her husband, and she and the children got a home of their own. Swan was afterwards received as a boarder. From what has been gathered, he was sitting at the fire to-night when lie suddenly made a savage attack on his wife. The children tried to intervene, but were driven from tlvj house by the infuriated man, who battered tho unfortunate woman's head with great ferocity. The crime has just been reported, and details, also what, if anything, led up to the murder are as yet unknown; Swan was before the Court some years ago on a charge of cruelty to his family which excited a good deal of comment at the time.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7859, 29 June 1905, Page 2
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166MAN MURDERS HIS WIFE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7859, 29 June 1905, Page 2
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