TRAGEDY IN ENGLAND.
FARM LABOURER'S CRIME.
YOUNG WIFE FATALLY STABBED.
A. and N.Z.
LONDON, July 27.
Frederick Southgate, a farm labourer, 52 years of age, visited the Colchester Mental Hospital and sought admission on the ground that he was suffering from loss of mepiory.
Shortly afterwards . S.outhgate was arrested on a charge of murdering his wife. The latter, though only 22 years old when she married Southgate, was a widow and the mother o'f seven children.
The Southgates were judicially separated last week.
It is alleged that the man called at his wife's cottage and stabbed her to death with a butcher's knife, t
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18773, 29 July 1924, Page 7
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104TRAGEDY IN ENGLAND. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18773, 29 July 1924, Page 7
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