AUCKLAND SENSATION
THE MURDER OF FRANCES MARSHALL POLICE BAFFLED. (IT TBLEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The Coroner's inquest on Frances Marshall has been adjourned till 20th October. The police up to the present are completely baffled regarding the solution of the tragedy. Dr. Keller, who made the post-mortem examination, says the case is reminiscent of the Whitechapel murders. In addition to wounds on the head and face there were twenty-five wounds in the chest, and the woman was stabbed through the lungs and heart. Marshall states that he had been married to deceased twenty years. They had lived the whole of that time in Auckland. They lived happily and she had been a faithful wife. He added, that he had given the police a full account of his movemehts on Monday night. His wife left home to visit a neighbour about eight, and after leaving the neighbour's house called at a place close to the locality of the tragedy about 10 o'clock. That was the last trace of her alive.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1914, Page 8
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171AUCKLAND SENSATION Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1914, Page 8
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