BRUTAL MURDER.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 19 March 1926, Page 9

BRUTAL MURDER.

FATHER’S AMAZING CRIME. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 18, 7.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 18. Watson is a school teacher. He suffered from depression for a considerable time. He and his daughter were to have left on the morning of the tragedy on a lengthened holiday. After the tragedy, Watson told his son he had murdered his daughter because lie was afraid she would ho cast upon the world, owing to his financial troubles. When she went to the telephone to ring the carter to remove furniture, prior to departing on holiday, she was struck on the head with a hammer. In the meantime during the sou’s absence securing a doctor, the father dismissed the school and presumably returned to the houso again and attacked his daughter. The father and daughter were deeply attached to each other.

[Ada Watson, aged 22, who was battered about the head with a hammer and an axe at her father’s residence at Penrith, died in hospital yesterday. It is stated that the girl's assailant struck her heavily on the head with a hammer, and leaving her for dead closed the house and went away. Later in the day tlr girl’s brother entered the lioine and seeing his sister lying ou the floor went for the police. While he was away tho assailant rotuFned and smashing his way into the house with nil axe attacked the girl a second time, inflicting fatal injuries with the axe. The poiico arrested the girl’s father, ■Allred Watson, aged 55.]