EARLY SETTLER'S DEATH.
CONNECTION WITH TRAGIC HAPPENING. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Dec. 9. The death has occurred of Mrs Margaret Cotton, aged 78, an early settler of Waipori. At the age of 18, when she married Mr Thomas Dickson, she had a sensational escape. Her father, Mr Richard Atkinson, while hanging meat in Dickson’s store at Waipori was fatally stabbed by a miner named William Jones, who then attacked and wounded her before being driven off with a gun by her mortally-wounded father. Jones later was arrested and was the second person executed at the Dunedin gaol.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 2
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97EARLY SETTLER'S DEATH. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 2
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