ARRESTED FOR MURDER
FARMER IN CUSTODY. DEATH OF YOUNG MAN. Per Press Association. STRATFORD, March 19. John Thomas Martin, a middle-aged dairy farmer, of Pembroke road, a jnarried man with a large family, was arrested on a charge of the murder of a young man named Thomas Hendrick, aged nineteen, who was found lying on the roadside within the borough at 7 o’clock last evening, and who succumbed hefore arriving at the hospital. There’was a smashed push bieyele beside the victim, who was terribly injured, and signs were discovered' that the body had 1 been dragged about sixty feet, apparently by a motor vehicle, which disappeared. Alter exhaustive inquiries, Martin was arrested 1 at midnight at his home. This morning the capital charge was made, and accused was remanded in custody for one Week, bail not being asked for.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12092, 20 March 1925, Page 4
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