DEATH TOLL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 25, 27 December 1932, Page 7

DEATH TOLL.

AUSTRALIA’S TRAGIC BOXING .DAY. CRIME OF VIOLENCE. Received December 27, 11.45 a.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 27. Australia’s known violent death toll for Boxing Day was fifteen, of whom •nine were killed in car accidents and three drowned. At Launceston, Mrs Rosie Jones, aged 26, was stabbed to death. An eye-witness states that a man chased her along the street, inflicting two knife wounds in her back. The woman then fell to the ground and the man turned her over on her back and stabbed her four times near the heart. The attacker then walked away handling a blood-stained knife. The eye-witness ran for the police and when ho returned he fountl the knife in the woman’s heart. Later, Reginald Waters, aged 27, was arrested and charged with murder. ACCIDENTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, Dec. 26. As is usual at this time of the year, motor car traffic was tremendously heavy to all favourite resorts, and there was a rather large crop of accidents. Among those killed was Nurse Hazel Wake, aged 29, whose parents are believed to live in New Zealand. She was in a car which crashed into a shop at North Sydney early on Christmas morning. There were five occupants of the car.