ATTEMPTED MURDER.
; ;..;. , : - ,'.;' /,: ■::.%:; July:2s. • .William . Henry Wakeham,. ycordial■manufactured, Dobk 'streetj -Freeman's ' 1 Bay; ( ; surrendered himself ' .tt>^ 'the' '•' police • station/ 1 - f at' the attempted murder ■of his iwife; ••> fie" had been drihlEirig| ; r and a squabble' "ensued over money- matters, which ended in her 1 beiri"g ; found outside in. the back yard ; with -/a j wound in ; the head from ! an ; axe,' ujaconscious : :'and7 partially paralysed! : A fatal termination i s jJ^F^fc-: Wakeham- ".says. ;: '::thal;r:she assailed him with .the axe first, and in the struggle ' 'both " fell' down the back door stepsand thus she got wounded. Wakeham was formerly of Dunedin, arid -^as., also a warder over the natives in Mount Cook gaol, Wellington, in 1879.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5253, 27 July 1885, Page 2
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115ATTEMPTED MURDER. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5253, 27 July 1885, Page 2
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