WOMAN BATTERED

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 3 January 1929, Page 5

WOMAN BATTERED

NORTH MELBOURNE MYSTERY. •'Per Press Association—Coovnshtl Australian Press Association. Received this day, 9.45 a.m. MELBOURNE, this day. In a house in North Melbourne the police found Mrs Ada Condon (45), with her face and head badly battered. A man, bleeding from a deep wound in his throat, was in another room. Both were taken to hospital. Dorothy Condon told the police that a man had' been in the habit of visiting her mother, who was a widow. After tea the girl heard screams and saw a man battering her mother with a- boot last.