A Women Brutally Murdered.
Adelaide, May 27. While a man named William Lyon was engaged grubbing stumps in the East Wellington di3trict his wfe remonstrated with him for working on Sunday. The man flew into a fit of anger, and hacked the woman to death with his axe. Their daughter attempted to secure the axe, but •h- f ther inflicted a severe wound on her ni-ck. Lyon is supposed to be in3ane.
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XIII, Issue 2373, 31 May 1895, Page 4
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