A Woman Murdered
TRAGEDY AT VTHAXTIARFJ. THE HUSIiAX D 'HIDES. RUT IS ARRESTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Whangarci, July 31. Marv Hammon. the middle-aged wife of Daniel Hammon, proprietor of the Huimai boardinghouse, was found in the kitchen before six o'clock this morning with the blade of a small axe buried to the shaft in the left side of her skull. Her screams brought the boarders on the scene, but the woman was then unconscious. There was 110 sign of her husband. The doctors withdrew the blade and removed the victim to the hospital, but her condition was hopeless, and she died from her injuries. Her [ husband was subsequently, found hiding j among the timber stocks on the wharf, and was arrested. Hammon lias three sons and one daughter, the eldest fourteen years old. Hammon appeared at the Police Court later and was remanded till the 2!>th inst.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 52, 22 July 1914, Page 5
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147A Woman Murdered Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 52, 22 July 1914, Page 5
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