PER ANGLO-AUSTRAL!AN PRESS TELECRAPH AGENCY.
Auckland, This day, Another Murder
Charles Dyer was brought into town from Palciri charged with the murder of Eliza JBatfcersea, a woman he was living with. He was jealous and constantly quarrelling. It is alleged that-last Wednesday ho beat her in a brutal manner, and then poured kerosene on her clothes, and set fire to them. He then wrapped a sack round her, carried her to the river, and threw her in. A man named Watson seeing her there lifted her out with Dyer's assistance. All the hair was burned off her head; her clothes burned to her waist; and the whole' of the upper part of her body was half roasted. She lingered two days in great agony and died. Dyer was arrested on a charge of murder. He alleges that she spilled the kerosene over herself, and that it accidentally ignited.
Mr. Blackail chief officer of the barque Pet, died from a fracture of the skull caused by an accident aboard.
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1723, 11 July 1874, Page 2
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168PER ANGLO-AUSTRAL!AN PRESS TELECRAPH AGENCY. Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1723, 11 July 1874, Page 2
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