TRAGEDY IN CHRISTCHURCH.
WOMAN'S BODY FOUND.
EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY.
(Pee United Passs Assocutios.)
CHPJSTCHURCH, February 8.
Tho dead body of a woman about 33 years of age was discovered in a right-of-way off Cashel street shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. The clothing was disarranged and abrasions on the body pointed to foul play. It is understood that the post-mortem examination will reveal that poison was administered to the woman. The contents of the stomach will'be analysed. The police state that the body was certainly not in tho right-of-way at 2 a.m. to-day, and that it was probably placed there after life was extinct alter 4 a.m.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15063, 9 February 1911, Page 8
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108TRAGEDY IN CHRIST-CHURCH. Otago Daily Times, Issue 15063, 9 February 1911, Page 8
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