CHARGE OF MURDER
TARANAKI FARMER ARRESTED
VICTIM'S BODY FOUND ON THE
ROADSIDE,
(BI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
STRATFORD, This Day.
John Thomas ,-Martin, a middle-aged dairy farmer, of Pembroke road, a married man with a large family, was arrested on a charge of the murder of a young man named' Thomas Hendrick, aged nineteen, who was found lying on the roadside within the borough at 7 o'clock last evening, and who succumbed before arriving at the hospital. _ There was a smashed push bicycle beside the victim, who was terribly injured, and signs were discovered that the body had been dragged about-sixty feet, apparently by a motor vehicle, which disappeared. After exhaustive inquiries, Martin was arrested at midnight 'at his home This morning the capital charge was made, and accused was remanded in custody for one week, bair not being asked for. ■ : ■•■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 65, 19 March 1925, Page 5
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