MURDER OF A WOMAN.
A murder has been committed at Cork Creek, near Croydon, the victim being Mrs. Sarah Ann Descurry, the wife of a miner at Ravenswood. It seems that she had been living with a man named Edmund Duhamel for some years, but lately had been in service at Wheeler's, where Duhamel found her with a man named Alfred Ginn. Duhamel took her home, cut her throat in three places, and afterwards took two large doses of strychnine. Thecoachdriver when passing next morning saw Duhamel and the woman lying covered with blood. He gave information to the police, who brought Duhamel into the lock-up, where the doctors saved him from the effects of the poison. The prisoner said to the arresting constable, "I cut her throat with a razor. She tried to defend herself, and ran outside for 30 feet. I carried her back, put her to bed, and from three to five minutes afterwards she died. I then said, 4 1 have taken my little woman's life, and will now take my own.'" The prisoner says that the c rime was not premeditated, but was done on the impulse of the moment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9146, 30 August 1888, Page 5
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