THE INVERCARGILL TRAGEDY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8937, 1 July 1905, Page 2

THE INVERCARGILL TRAGEDY.

JEALOUSY THE ALLEGED CAUSE:.

fPRUS, ASSOCIATION.] ' INVERCARGILL, June 3S*. lhe inquest on the body of Mary Ama Swan has< been proceeding all day, herhusband, Daniel Swan, who is accused of murdering her,>beirig s^preiient In tin- i tody., .. r V • --'^a : . Medical men said .that Swan appeared " to be quit© rational when they examined him after the tragedy. -. > The evidence was to the effect that Swan made the fatal assault without the slightest warning or quarrel, the only wads that the daughter Rhoda heard previously being a question by her father as. to whether she, , Mrs Swan, intended I to have a party before their son, who ! was going to England next Saturday; started., x ' . . • '- >i.m• •- . " Mrs Swan replied that she liad been thinking of jt. -Why did he ask? Rhodadid not hear, the reply. ~ . . Soon af ter_accused arose and took a flat- • 'iron from the. fire and struck deceased, who was sitting darning with her back to* him, a .terrific blow on the back of the< '' " head. ■■*..* After his arreafc, Swan> remarks In thw police camp indicated that he was jealous of Ckrk, the lodger, *ho. was young; - enough totohw. wife's son. ... *•■ *> 'The evidenco,.of all the ftnuly wu «nn'»rv k pbatically against sucji t statement. . , . . .The jury returned, a verdict, of wilful' . . Rhodfc aged loVfc* bu W* attempt stay her .father's att«vok. „ , „ i Th« girlis in^ hospital witli a, broken tlromband a scalp wound sustained in the " ' struggle. She gave her evidence with great clearness.