ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 173, 10 February 1915, Page 2

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

HOU'fH AUCKLAND SHEEP. FARMER'S WIFE.

INFANT MISSING

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"Auckland, ycste/day. News has just been received ' of what appears to'ha\e been a murderous attack, on the young wife, ot a sheep-farmer at Orewhero, 'fifty miles souift of Auckland. v.oman, Edith Emma Keals, was 'brought fcto Auckland hospital this evening, m a critical condition, and an' operation is now being- performed for the removal of a bullet fu>ra noi head. The husband, left the house early yesterday morning to go droving, intending to be absent aiU night! Early this morning Mi;s Hunter went, to Mrs Keals's room and was horrified to find her lying unconscious in her bed, which was trioodstamed. > - She' Wag bleeding from a bullet-wound in the.head, and her headland fase were also marked as d with blows lrom a piece of wood, and a piece ofw ood a piece of wood, and a. piece, o:' wood bearing bloodstains was ■ afterwards found.in the room. An infant - five weeks old, wh''ch>ha«l been in "bed Willi Mrs Keals, had comrletely dls--appeared, and no trace of it has yet been found. The whole affair is wran»ei in mystcrv. A number ot iior«t:/*s arc in the district making inquiries. ." , VICTIM' STILU .UNCONSCIOUS. - ' - - i. ■«->■' , * V ■*>*'-, * ■ '* ' ' " : , 'A> ClXfy ■ ; f ?&s.<* S-,\r *6*»cW'