MOA FLAT TRAGEDY
DEATH OF MRS FLAXMAN HUSBAND ACCUSED OF MURDER. arrested ON DISCHARGE FROM HOSPITAL. " (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, December 1. Police inquiries into the Moa Flat tragedy resulted in the arrest this evening of Charles Henry Flaxman, aged 35 years, on a charge of murdering his wife, Marion Beatrice Flaxman, aged 25. , Mrs Flaxman’s body, badly battered about the head, was recovered from a cottage on Wilden Road,, near Edievale, which had been completely de- "S, stroyed by fire early on the morning j of November 17. > . After the discovery of the tragedy j Flaxman was found with a wound in the throat and was removed to Tapanui ■ hospital. He was transferred later to a J Dunedin hospital and was sufficiently ■ recovered today to be discharged. He was placed under arrest and appear in the morning in the trates’ Court on the charge of havinaßl murdered his wife. A remand will asked for by the police. W
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1941, Page 6
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159MOA FLAT TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1941, Page 6
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