A FAMILY ROW.
SON CHARGED WITH MURDER
- [FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Christchurch, Feb. 20. This evening the police were summoned to a house in Durban street, and on arrival found a woman lying dead on a bed. The woman’s name was Mrs. Thompson, whose husband is at Pakatoa.) It appears that a auarrel took place between her son, Alexander Thompson, aged 23, who recently returned from harvesting, and a man named Baxter, who was living in the house. Blows were striick( and the woman, on going to interfere, was alleged to have been hit bv her son. She fell over and struck the sharn edge of a fruit case, bursting a varicose vein and bleeding to death. w The son was arrested on a charge of murder. He said he struck et Baxter, who dodged the blow, which fell on the woman. Baxter says the son deliberately hit his mother when she interfered.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 361, 21 February 1914, Page 3
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152A FAMILY ROW. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 361, 21 February 1914, Page 3
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