A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
A strange and very sad fatality was reported to the police at Beaufort on the 22nd July last as having occurred at Euranbeen, about five miles from Melbourne. Late that night a publican named Michael Kelly with his wife and daughter and two young men had been cutting Kelly’s hair with a pair of sheepshears which bad been sharpened for the purpose, The party were engaged in conversetion after the operation, and Coffey the operator had placed the shears on a table near Mrs Kelly, whose husband got off his chair and taking the towel containing the clippings of hair, aaid to his wife, “ Don’t say I am groy after this,” and placed the towel over her head. She took up the shears, throwing them at him, and said, “ Go away will you,” at the same time the point of the shears entered Kelly’s left leg behind the knee, causing a deep wound. He bled profusely, all efforts to stop the bleeding proving fruitless, and he died in less than twenty minutes, Dr Nolan, of Beaufort, arriving too late to be of any assistance. At the inquest a verdict of “ Manslaughter ” was returned, and Mrs Kelly was committed for trial.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1771, 2 August 1888, Page 3
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203A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. Temuka Leader, Issue 1771, 2 August 1888, Page 3
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