STABBED HER WITH KNIFE
ASSAILANT OF BRUNETTE REMANDED. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. C°olo Association.] LONDON, Feb. 22. Stratton, who was arrested, has been remanded on a charge of murdering Daisy Mayes, a pretty brunette girl. The police gave evidence that accused made the following statement: “I was deterxnind that if ,1 couldn’t have her nobody eles would. I had been waiting for, a favourable opportunity to ’do her in.* After an argument in the train I pulled out a piece of iron from my pocket struck hep on the head and then stabbed her with a knife.” The girl had 24 wounds.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3542, 25 February 1927, Page 9
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