DEATH OF MRS GISCOMB.
HUSBAND CHARGED WITH MAN SLAUGHTER.
CHRISTCHURCH, May 15
The inquest on the body of Mm Goscomb developed sensationally to-day, the woman's husband being charged ■with manslaughter. The evidence showed that Goscomb and hie wife were continually drinking and quarrelling, and on Sunday at midday the man hit his wife a severe blow on the chin. Tlie woman's body was subsequently found in an outhouse. The coroner returned a verdict that the woman died of heart failure, induced by n, blow inflicted by Frank Gc&comb. The latter was then formally charged with manslaughter, and remanded till May 23.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3036, 22 May 1912, Page 30
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