PALMERSTON NORTH MURDER

Evening Star, Issue 17328, 16 April 1920, Page 6

PALMERSTON NORTH MURDER

ANOTHER SENSATION.

KARRY DEELEY HANGS HIMSELF.

[Per Uxited Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, April 16, Harry Beeley, who was awaiting trial in connection with the Palmerston North murder, hanged himself at the Terrace Gaol this morning. [At Palmerston Aorfch on March 18 the body of a woman with her throat cut was found lying by a fence, where it i« overhung with trees in an unformed street. A ' esident'of the vicinity was passing through the street between 6 and 7 o'clock, whon iie observed the body. Tho police wew» communicated with, and on arrival immediately afterwards removed the corpse to the morgue. . The bodv was then completely coid, and the woman appeared to have been dead for some hours. Investigations disclosed that the body was that of a :narried woman named Mary Ethelm Webby, aged 44 rears, who resided with her husband, Felix Webbv, a drayman in the employ of a local firm of contractors. The face was covered with blood, but there were no mnrks on ti.o body other, than the fatal injuries to the throat. Xo instrument bv which the could have been performed, was found, *> that the inference drawn by the police was that the woman had been foully murdered. Deeley was subsequently arrested and charged with the :iinnier of Mrs Webby. He appeared in the Court at Palmerston North"lnst Saturday, and was remanded for eight days.]