SENSATION IN WANGANUI
YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED. MAN SURRENDERS TO POLICE, (Per United Peess Association.) WANGANUI, May 9. 'About 8.30 p.m. to-day the 21-year-old daughter of Mrs O. Cromarty, of Ridgeway street, staggered down a flight of Stairs with a gaping wound in her throat. She made an effort to speak, but fell face down at the kitchen door and died on the floor in front of her mother. Down the stairs behind the girl came a man who was residing in the same house. He left by the front door, and, snatching a bicycle, rode away as fast ns he could. The distracted mother rushed to the gateway crying; “He’s after my bairn, he’s after my bairn, won’t anyone help me?” Three hours later the man, Herbert Frederick Manley, aged 88, walked into the central police station, and said; " I’m the man you’re looking for." He was taken into custody and charged with the murder of Gladys Cromarty,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 14
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