FEARFUL MURDER AT ORMONDVILLE.
EFFECT OF DRINK,
'. Napier, Monday, A' shocking murder was committed yesterday at Ormondville, a settlement in the Seventy Mile Bush, on the Napier-Woodville railway,: A man named Edwards, who had been on the
spi'ce, while in. delirium tremens cut t]to throats of his wife and four children and afterwards' ftttemptfid to out his' own, biit only, inflicted a slight wound. Edwards was arrested this County. where his wounds were- he was then taken back to Ormondyille for the inquest Edwards was a platelayer on the line and much" addicted to drink, He has been twice before the B.M. charged with lunacy brought on by excessive drinking, and has been discharged from the Asylum on medical certificates.
Wakganui February 10. The following acceptances have been received
The Cup.—Bayard, Comet, Turquoise, Normanby, St.' Clair, The Laird, The Poet, Maori, Libeller, Refrigerator, Buzzard, .Ringleader, Sham, Leonata, Tim Whiffler, .Wainiareka, Atua, Administrator, Consul/ Blue Gown. Flying Handicap. Leonessa, Witiora, Normanby, fe'atoria, The Laird, Maori, Libeller, Okato, Buzzard, Hinemoa, Ringleader, Sham, Tim Whiffier, Consul, Administrator, Sweet Home, Blue Gown, Larrikin aud Dusk.
District Handicap,-Bayard, St. Clair, Leonessa, Parera. Hinemoa, Buzzard, Ringleader, Sham, Armorer, Wainiareka, Atua, Blue Gown, Dusk,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1607, 12 February 1884, Page 2
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197FEARFUL MURDER AT ORMONDVILLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1607, 12 February 1884, Page 2
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