THE HORSHAM TRAGEDY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 149, 20 July 1909, Page 2

THE HORSHAM TRAGEDY

HAY t'OXKENSKS. By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright. ti ~. „ * ll ' ll " , "i»i', July 111! Hay told the .police that he quarrelled with {.ox, and accused hi,,, always of being drunk when he came home He struck Cox several times with a toy If".", !''"{ th ,™ « ras l )l ' a I"" throat and held it for fifteen minutes till Cox'was (lead. Afterwards he washed the dead man s face. l-in!,T, Cu ' V , "| so , a,l " litted tlmt Hay Killed her husband. The medical evidence showed that deceased was strangled, and that death was accelerated by a weak heart. The police also overheard an incriminating conversation, between the ac uittlls UU '- V m ' rC ° mWin S

he tragedy » alleged to have Juried at Horsham, a town of about 3000 ...haibitants, wo hundred miles from Melbourne A fruiterer named Cox was [omul .lead in a roof near the rear of hissliop ll.s head wa,s terribly battered Deceased's wife informed the ,poI'ce that a strange man rushed into the room where her huslmnd was countin" mncy and attacked him. The po ee°, alter investigating, arrested Mrs Cox T I 1'"/?" ,"'T l 1 Ir " V ~ a visit, or to Cox's house-on the charge of murder. ° UI