WOMAN’S THROAT CUT
SIGNS OF FIERCE STRUGGLE. TRAGEDY IN MELBOURNE. Melbourne, September 3. Mrs Margaret Curry, aged thirty-two, was found dead in her home with her throat cut. There was a razor some distance from the body and signs of a fierce struggle. The body was on a bed and the razor six feet away. Discovery of the tragedy was made by deceased’s child aged three whom a lodger in the house found crying outside after he had found the mother’s body.—A. and N.Z. HUSBAND CONFESSES TO CRIME. (Rec. 1.20 a.m.) Melbourne, September 3. The husband of Mrs Curry entered the Fairfield Police Station and confessed that he committed the murder. He said he first hit his wife on the head with an iron bar. She managed to struggle through the bedroom window into the garden. 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 the crime.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 19966, 4 September 1926, Page 7
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