Kicking a Wife to Death.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2082, 17 June 1887, Page 3

Kicking a Wife to Death.

Emma Dowmhwaite, the wife of a ma'' living in Rose Valley, Liverpool, naa lue cleaning and letting oi'a non?.- : j u terrace near where she liw.-d, and he other evening was about to show man through the vacant house, •hen her husband, returned from Lon-do-.i, came up to her and asked, “ What ha-'*- ss have you in any house witli a man .- ’’ He was told that she had the letting of the place, and was merely showing a stranger over it, but Downthwaite exclaimed, “ You must be after something bid,” and chased the man ***/• He tlen went home with htwife, being very irunk at the time, and at a later hour locked the street dooi and began an attack on the woman. He caused her to bleed from the eyes, nose, and ears from the effects of his violence, and then caught her by the hair, and dragged her to the foot of the stairs striking her jxmunualJy in the face with his fist until she fell When she wae down he struck her on the bosom about a dozeu times, and kicked her violently seven or eight dines on the back and sides. He then kicked her on the ankle and •tom- She managed to go upstairs to hed, and there he rejieatedly struck her again. Next morning she was unable to get out of bed. Her husband was about to kick her again, but said, “ No, I won’t. I have given yon enough already.” The poor woetani rapidly became worse, and bad a miscarriage, and a few days after the assault she died. Her husband was arrested.