MURDER OF FARMER. !
THE WUBIN TRAGEDY. STATEMENT BY WIFE. , , Press Association-Electric Telet,rapfc.~Copyrig!n (RecciA'ed Tuesday, 9.35 a.m.) PERTH, This. Day. Hulme has been remanded for eight days. Mrs Smith, who has improved, stated that her husband Avas shot dead on Friday afternoon, Hulme, Avho Avas employed on the farm, stating that he had fallen from a tractor and was killed. She Avantcd to rush to the spot, Avhen the same employee sympathetically persuaded her to remain in the house, immediately after Avlvich ho punched her face and body unmercifully and secured her Avitli ropes to a bed-post. He then assaulted her and then attacked the other members' of the family.
The baby is recovering, but the six-year-old girl is still in a critical condition.—Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 June 1928, Page 5
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