A, DOUBLE MURDER.

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 22, 29 August 1896, Page 2

A, DOUBLE MURDER.

A MAN AND HIS WIFE KILLED. 1 ROBBERY THE MOTIVE. AN ARREST MADE ON SUSPICION. (IJY TKLKGIUI'II. —OWN- COIinESrONDENT). "Wellington. Last Nijrht. NEWS Ims been recoivcel that Mr and Mrs Jones who kept a shop at Fetone at the bead of the harbonr, were found murdered this morning. Jones was a man of seventy, and his wifo rive years younger. Jones was formerly malinger for Mr Piriistec!, ironmonger, of Hokitilca and Christchurch. He kept a grocery storo in Jucksbn-strcet, and lived on the premises. The murdered couple had no family with them.. Between nine and ten last night. Mis Atkinson went for a tin of cocoa, but, though the light' was fcurniug, she could make ho one hear. About eight this morning Mrs Houoslow went in, and the lamp was still burning. Sho saw a man lying dead on the floor, and she ran out screaming " Murder ! " Mr Godfrey, one of the railway workshop emplo3'ees, nin up and found both Jones and his wife brutally murdered;. The man has three stabs in his back. The wife was lying iii a pool of blood, and this at first gave rise to the report that her throat was cut; but a cursory examination failed to show any wound. It is thought the woman ma}' Lave burst a bluod vessel through shock, or in her efforts, to •escape.''•■ ■" * ', Both, were fully dresßed and, "not being in the bedroom, it is inferred . the deed was done last nighjU. * J ''Mrs Jones - was covered with blood, .41 and also had a cut on one hand from (I a. sharp instrument.. No weapon has been found. A number of neighbours I reside all round, but at present \ no ono appears to have heard anything. Robbery is supposed to have been the motion for the crime. It was known some time ago that Jones was, in possession of a- considerable suni?of money. Jones was found on the kitchen floor, and his wife in a passage by the front door. Jones had three stabs in his buck. Nothing was taken from the house so far as is known. The police were early on the scene. Tho only clue about the premises Was 'a heavy foot mark outside the house. A man named James Share, employed on a stop bank contract at Pctone, has been arrested on suspicion. of.being connected with the tragedy.