TRAGEDY NEAR DAYLESFORD.

Otago Witness, Issue 1921, 11 December 1890, Page 27

TRAGEDY NEAR DAYLESFORD.

A HUSBAND FATALLY INJURES HIS

WIFE'S PARAMOUR.

A sensation was caused in Daylesford on the 2nd inst. (writes our Melbourne crrrespondent), when it became known that a watchmaker and jeweller, of Vincent street, Daylesford, named George E. Hoare, had been so fearfully injured that from the first the medical men (three) held out no hope of recovery. The particulars, so far as they can be learned, are as follow: — Thomas Avison, a young man who until lately kept the Albert Hotel in Daylesford, but who a fen months ago purchased a hotel and store at Dry Diggings, five miles from Daylesford, has had suspicions of his wife's unfaithfulness for some time past, but was never able to prove her guilt. On Monday afternoon he was driven to the Daylesford station, and took a ticket for Melbourne, having left word at home that he would not be back until the following day. Instead of going the entire distance, he got out of the train at Musk creek, aud returned to Davlesford the same evening. At about half-past 10 in the evening, in company with Edward Ellis, a solicitor's clerk, he went to the Dry Diggings, and, having forced an entrance, made his way into his wife's bedroom, where he found her and Hoare sleeping. With a tomahawk, which he bad snatched from the counter, Avison dealt Hoare several blows on the head, breaking his skull iv several places, and causing the brains to protrude. He then proceeded to Daylesford and informed Dr Willis of the occurrence. Dr Willis went out, and, after attending to the injured man, ordered him to be conveyed to the Daylesford Hospital. On arrival at the institution Drs Willis, Stevenson, and Ruddle examined the injuries, and declared that there were no hopes of Hoare's recovery. The mayor, accompanied by the clerk of the court, the police, and the prisoner attended at the hospital to take the injured man's depositions, but he was too rambling in his statements for this to be done. Avison is now in custody.