A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 263, 3 June 1880, Page 3

A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.

, DUNEDIN, May 31‘ Circumstances in : connection...witjr'a • woman named .Lochart, living off al cerstreet, are of such a suspicious character ai to lead the police to take charge of the house iff which she dieff; From a statement of a neighbour it appears that on Thursday night Lochart and his wife had a quarrpl. ~Lpchart struck her, hut how, or with what, has not yet transpired. '• The only other occupant of the house was the youngest, son, a lad of about eleven years old. He refuses to give any account of what took place, the only statement that tan be got at from him Ixiug that, his mother fell just ' outside tin; door, and there hurt herself. ‘The. eldest son, twenty years old ,"stsites ; that unThuisday night he : was livihg in town. He; had left his father’s house some time before. In the evening he heard that something had happened to his niolhci,. and that she was badly hurt. He went, home to see what was the matter and found her lying on the,floor unable to speak. He watched her until early on Friday morning, when finding that sl.e got ,no better, he went for Dr. Br wa. She died withou returning to conscic s n ess on Saturday afternoon, llirec doctors made a pcstulortem examination They stated that death had: resulted from, violence. An inquest. was held during the afternoon, and the evidence .showed that the husband wa< b the habit, of illtreating her. The jury;r- turned a verdict of manslaughter against'- the husband, Charles Lodhart who was committed lur trial.