A SAD TRAGEDY.
SOX KILLS HIS MOTHER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christcfaurch, Last Night. This evening the police were summoned to a house in Durham Street, City, ami on arrival found ,1 woman lying dead on her bed. The woman's flame was Mrs Thompson, whose husband is at Pakatoa. H appears a quarrel took plants between her son, Alexander Thompson, aged 23 years, who recently returned from harvesting, and a man named Baxter, who was living in the home. Blows were struck, and the woman, on going to interfere, was alleged to have been hit by her son. She fell over and struck the sharp edge of a fruit-case, burst a varicose vein, and bled to death. The son was arrested on a charge of murder. He said he struck at Baxter, who dodged and the blow fell on the woman. Baxter says the son deliberately struck his mother when she interfered.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 21 February 1914, Page 5
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151A SAD TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 21 February 1914, Page 5
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