SHOCKING MURDER IN SOUTH MELBOURNE.
Received April 29, OAOa.m. Melbourne, April 28, A shocking tragedy is recorded from South Melbourne.
A man named Thorpe, residing in that district, heard a knock at his door early in the morning, and when he opened the door a woman named Kate Norton, with whom he had been living, fell into his arms, She had a fearful gash'in her throat,]anddied almost immediately, ■ "he police have arrested a young man named 'Arthur'Beck, .who has confessed that the woman and ho cohabited some years ago, and that they met on the night previous to the tragedy; that they spent the night-together, and that,,because she refused to resume the old relations, he cut herthroat with a razor, to purchase which he had had to pawn his clothes, i The track of Wood showed that the woman had .walked 70 yards after the wound was inflicted.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5012, 29 April 1895, Page 2
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148SHOCKING MURDER IN SOUTH MELBOURNE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5012, 29 April 1895, Page 2
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