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(Per Press Association;) AffrftsAc Xty*% ffco Tragedy, Napisb, June 10. t „.»» ." u '" ,wio kt who murdere James Roderick Matheson, met hi» uv.. ' a tragic manner. After committing; the foul deed he made his way to ahigh cliff covered with bush overlook-
ng the soeno of the murder, the faomj station, and bis .house. Ap|MUiDii|M indicate that he then got some and tying one end in a noose roniral his neok and the other end roand the% branch of a tree, he sat on the while he smoked a farewell pipe,' «ctf| then threw himself off. The flaxl broke, bat the -, tightened thel noose round his neok, and was slowly strangled. The ground! around the body, shows that ther»J most have been a prolonged stragglers before death came.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3830, 11 June 1891, Page 2
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128TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3830, 11 June 1891, Page 2
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