The Pomohaka Tragedy.
Dunedin, July 7-
The inquest on the body of Mary Matson, found in a lagoon on the banks of the Pomohaka Eiver, was formally opened at Lawrence to-day and adjourned till the 15th inst. A post mortem was made by Drs Sutherland and Nichol, and it was difficult to identify the body.
Matson and the woman Clark have admitted that the body is that of Mrs Matson, and it is intended to take a sister of Matson's to Lawrence in the hope that she may identify it. The post mortem revealed two wounds on the bead, but the skull was not fractured.
Probably a theory will have to be set up that the woman was first stunned, then tied up in two sacks and thrown into the river. Carl Matson and Hannah Bertha Clark, the prisoners, were brought to Dunedin and locked up in gaol.
It is understood the evidence so far is somewhat slender.
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Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 193, 10 July 1896, Page 2
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