TRAGEDY AT WHANGAREI.

Mataura Ensign, 21 July 1914, Page 4

TRAGEDY AT WHANGAREI.

AXE IN WOMAN'S SKULL,

PBE UNITKn PRESS ASSOCIATION. \VHAN(; 1 RF.I, July 21. Mavy ifummoii a mi-Idlo-agod woman ■•I .the wiic m) ,D«i ■>.■] Hammon, pro- ' of ire Huim: ni Moardinghouse, «,a "ontin in tho '• ii^li* - * before six a'; n'!i il.ts. morn'.':, tvnL iljp. blade r.f ,i .■rr.n-1 <,.-e 1m d to iho .haft- in the lei I of h«r .nit Her (screams \r ■; *■•' : V u;:!>-r.. i«. 'k , rone. out iho vy-uMf. ;•••.!#Jh.. , u'l'-'-usoious. There r.f- s- of '.:•••• 'c; . d. I.Vh','i , ivli!;;!"!-,. ' Vdo and ror*innod toe ■' . ;'h t ~,spital. Her eo-; 7 it:n ; i is j. pci< T' - husi.aud was subsequently found hiding among timber stacks on the whurf, .ind w:-s arrested. The Ha' inons have three sons and on« daughter, the eldest being .aged l I I.

SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES

WHANOARET, "July 21. .tTammon appeared, at the Police Cairt this mcrning, charged with attenpted murder, and was remanded uriil July 20. "he woman li.tj r:inee succumbed to hoi injuries.