HUSBAND CONFESSES
MURDERED HIS WIFE \ CRIME UNEXPLAINED MELBOURNE, Sept. 3. The husband of Mrs Curry entered the Fairfield police station and confessed that he committed the murder. He said that he first hit his wife on the head with an iron bar. She managed to struggle through the bedroom window into the garden whence he chased her and she fell 'unconscious. He dragged her back to the bedroom, laid her on the bed and slashed her throat with a razor. He made no explanation of his crime, Mrs Curry was found dead in a bed with her throat gashed and n razor lying nearby. There were signs in the room of a fierce struggle having .taken place.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17130, 4 September 1926, Page 5
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