THE CLEMENTS MURDER.
(by TELEGRAPH—OWN correspondent). Dhnkdin, Last Night. At the hearing of the charge of wife murder preferred against Charles Clements the little daughter of the couple, 5J years old, gave evidence, but not on oath. She said not long after they went to bed her father cut her mother's throat and then cut his own. Her mother was nsleep before her father went to bed. After cutting his throat her father went into the passage three times, coming back to bed cash time. She and her brother lay at the foot of the bed all that night and the next day. She said she did not sleep at all and had nothing to eat. Her brother had a drink of tea which her father gave him. When she went to get up her father told her to lie down. Ihe girl gave her evidence intelligently, but though she said she knew her mother was dead when her throat wa3 cut she evidently did not realise it.
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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 221, 11 December 1897, Page 2
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