Further Particulars

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2067, 6 October 1885, Page 2

Further Particulars

(B\ TMKI.IUPII.- OWN COUKK^rON-DLSr ) Dlnkkiv, Moml.iy. Mrs Ueorgina B itlu, whose death foims the hubjoct of an iMiqim y tins aftei noon, w .is over :>0 years of age. She w.is known to be intemperate, and lned in a mi. ill thiee roomed cottage at South Dunedm with her d uightor ( iged fiom 12 • to 30), and thelittei'* tuoohildien. Tin' duightei is aMisEdwaid Brown, and was a witness in tlicnotoiimisW.nn c.i-c Hei husb,md is at present ill Ashburton. On Sitmdiy m< lining Mis Brown aim mod the noi^h bouiliood with the intelligence that -he had found hei mother dead in bed. I lie dead woman was discoveied lying dieted upon ,i «ni.ill stretcher bed which she usually occupied. Her head was Miiiounded by a i o >1 of blood, but there weie no signs to arouse snspicous of \iolence. It w.v- at hist supposed tint deceased, who wis a woman of diunktn habits had probably broken a blood \ essel. Dr. Hockcn made ■i po,t inoitfin rvamination, and found that the woman's skull has been fractured, ap par. ntl\ by a blow fioni some blunt in strument, and there wcie other wound-, about h-r hands, &.c. Mi- Biown stjtes that «ho left hei mother .»nd rctned to bud .it 9 o'clock on Fiidav r Mining, and did not see her again until she discoveied hei deul body. The two women wie drinkin^ beer on Fiiday evening, but the daughter did not say that any vim tor was at the place. No arrests have been made. The medical examination shows that the wounds on Mrs Butler could not h.i\e been self inflicted, or the result of a fall. The wall of the mom opposite the bad is bespattered with blood, showing that she wa-. attacked where she lay. Both woniPiiueie drinking, and the duightei is unable to give an intelligible .iccount of her actions on Friday.