AN OLD CRIME RECALLED
DEATH OF MARGARET COTTON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night, The. death is reported of Margaret Cotton, aged 78 years, an early settler of Waipori. At the age of 18, when she married Thomas Dickson, she had a sensational escape. Her father, Richard Atkinson, while hanging moat in Dickson’s store at Waipori, was fatally stabbed by a miner named William Jones, who then attacked and wounded her before being driven off with a gun by the mortally wounded father. Jones was later arrested and was the second person executed in the Dunedin gaol.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1926, Page 7
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