MURDERER DIES.
IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM. 1 T • (Received Oct. 15, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14. Crump, who came from New Zealand in April, 1907, and oiurdered his cousin at Southsea in, the following June, died in a lunatic asylum. [John Langfard Cramp was a septuagenarian settler of Onaero, eleven miles from Auckland, who went to England in 1907. In June of that year he called on Mrs Crump, a widow at Southsea (Portsmouth), with whom ho claimed relationship, and after a conversation shot her fatally. Mrs Crump's husband was Mr Moriarty-Crump (before marriage, Mori-arty), who was at one time in Tasmania, but who went Hocne on being, left extensive property in Ireland. The murderer said the property had been bequeathed to Mori-arty-Cranip on conditioin that it did not jpiiss out of the family. He contendeij'that Mrs Moriarty-Orump was not one of the family.]
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 5
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144MURDERER DIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 5
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