WELLINGTON SENSATION.
TRAGIC DEATH OF A GIRL.
WELLINGTON, February 12.
A sensation was caused in the city early this morning when the news got abroad tJsat a young girl, aged about 17, named Eleanor Pearl Axup, who resided with her mother at 92 Abel Smith street, had been ebot dead by t/laude Faget, a carpenter, aged somewhere between 25 and 30, a widower, who recently arrived from Bydney. It is understood that Paget was at Mrs 'Axup's last night in a semi-intoxicated ttate, and was asked to leave. Paget was arrested immediately the police appeared on the scene, and was brought before the court later in the day. He appeared dazed, and walked into the dock with his head hanging- down, and took no notice whatever of his surroundings. The police asked for and were granted a seraand until the ifith inst.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 34
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142WELLINGTON SENSATION. Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 34
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