THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.
POLICE BAFFLED.
NO CLUE TO THE MURDERER.
Tlffl CORONER'S INQUEST.
By Telegraph.--Press Association, Auckland, September W. The coroner's intjucfit on Frances Akirsliaii was adjourned: till October 2&. The police are com/plotcly baffled. I)r Keller, who made tha post-mortem, says the case is reminiscent of the Wbitechapel murders. Ini addition to wounds on the head and face there were twenty-five wounds in the cheflt. and the woman was stabbed through the lungs and heart. ■Marshall stated that he hud bees n-arriod to deceased for twenty yearn. They l,ad lived the whole of tlij,t time in Auckland. They had lived happily, and she had 'been a faithful wife. He added that he had given the police ft full account of his movements on Monday night. His wife left home to visit a neighbour about eieht o'clock, and after leaving the neighbour's toase called at one close to the locality of the tragedy nfl>ouit ten o'clock", T4»(i w*» Ui last trace of her oliTe. ..
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 1 October 1914, Page 2
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164THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 1 October 1914, Page 2
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