A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A MOTHER. MURDERED AND DISMEMBERED.
'-. THE BODY-BURNED. [press association.] London, October 14. A terrible tragedy is reported from Yorkshire, where a young man kicked his mother to death and then dismembered the body. He afterwards collected the remains, saturated them with some combustible substance and burned them. A domestic servant was threatened with similar treatment, but was subsequently released under pledge of secrecy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9186, 16 October 1888, Page 5
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66A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9186, 16 October 1888, Page 5
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