WOMAN FOUND MURDERED
Attacked While At Sewing Machine
(P.A.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Nov. 25. The wife of Mr Frederick Joseph Speight, a commercial traveller, was murdered as she was sitting at a sewing machine in the living room of her house, 245 Park road, Palmerston North, tonight. The attack was made by a person at present unknown, but a man was seen to leave the place hurriedly on a bicycle. Neighbours, alarmed by the woman’s screams, summoned the police. The crime was committed with a hammer. The husband was not at home and the only son, aged 12, was at the pictures.
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Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 4
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101WOMAN FOUND MURDERED Southland Times, Issue 24602, 26 November 1941, Page 4
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