A FAMILY QUARREL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Inv ekca ko i ll, M<»nday. A singular case was heard at the Police Court to-day, when an old man named W. Martin, farmer, Otercamer.iki, was charged with killing two horvj-., the property of a settler named William Paton, by poisoning them with phosphorised oats. The principal evidence against the accused was givon by members of his own family. The trouble appears to have arisen through tin* old man objecting to his daughter's iiiarri.ige with Paton, and he was recently fined for striking her in the face. While her father was in g.iol on remand, .she married Piton, and she did not give oridence ag.tin>t her father on the more serious cliarge. Martin was committed for tFial.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2198, 10 August 1886, Page 2
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126A FAMILY QUARREL AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2198, 10 August 1886, Page 2
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