DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
MAN MURDERS HIS WIFE.
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock;) ■■•■ •'-•■. ROME« ! Sep% 13.
j. A porter named Churlton told the : Magistrate at Lake Como that his wife, on the last day of a series of quarrels and reconciliations, attempted .to- strike him. He thereupon struck her with a hammer several times on | the. neck.; She fled, fell across the bed, and died.' Realising that 1 he "must get rid of the body, he placed it in a box, and threw it into the lake.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 September 1913, Page 5
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85DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 September 1913, Page 5
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