A SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.

Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 768, 1 October 1900, Page 2

A SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.

MAN STABBED BY HIS WIFE. (BY TKIiKGBAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"). Dokbdin, Last Night. A GREAT sensation was caused in the northern part of the city when it was announced that a well-known citizen, Thos. Fogo, painter, of Frederick and King-streets, had been murd.-red by his wife. He had some words with his wife in the bedroom about 7 o'clock, and during the altercation Mrs Fogo stabbed her husband over the region of the heart with a knife. Their son, whose attention was attracted by a noise in his parents' room, rushed in, and was horrified to rind his father bleeding profusely, and his mother staudiog 'iiose to him with a bloodstained knife in her hand. Mr Fogo senior, did not utter a word, but staggered into the arms of his sou and expired before Dr. Closs, who had been telephoned for, could reach the scene. Mrs Fogo, who acknowledges killing her husband, has been placed under arrest pending the o .roner'a inquest. Additional particulars regarding Thos. Telfer Fogo, aged Co, show that he came here from Victoria in 1861, settled in Auckland and afterwards ou the West Coast, returning to Dnnedin in 1866, when he started a painter's business in the present location in Frederick-street. Of late J years he drank heavily, this leading to frequent jangles with his wife. This morning Andrew Fogo, the only son, heard his mother or someone from her room calling out. Running from his bedroom he found bis mother's door locked. He burst it open whereupon the almost naked body of his father fell into his arms. Two groans signified that life was not quite gone : but he must have died immediately as the result of ii wound under the left collarbone, from which blood freely flowed. Mrs Fogo, who was standing in the room with a carving knife in her hand, said at once that she had done the deed, and made the snme confession to Dr. Closs, adding if she had not done it he would have done for her. A similar statement was repeated to the police after her arrest.

The only family is the son before mentioned and a daughter in Christchurch.