The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2021-12-07
issued: 1932-10-15
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note: Market. Are Buoyant As Gain Lossen of Past Week —Pc_e Nine thon 5Mi ■■ Squamish Indians Take Ffi Box Lacrosse Playoff —1\ '■:'[• ■ ▼ounwi ««WS, NELSON. H. C. SATl HI)AV MORNINO, OCTOBER 11, IHS 1-IVB Cr.NTS A COPY a______m IRISH EJECT T *ic '.. : '': SH LABOR LEADER *K STABS WS TWO: 50 Tears Old WIFE TO DEATH Flees From Home and Is Believed to Have Suicided STABS FIGHTING WIFE 20 TIMES Believed Insane From Destitution and Delay in Getting: Wages Liberals Win Support Home Rule for Scotland FORT ALBERNI, B. C Oet. 14— (CP)—Tha family ot C. Asuko- Ihpaness, has been wiped out ln a wfctter of blood, Asuko, Insane from destitution and delay In getting what hs considered rightful pay- j ment for bis summer's labor, slew I h> two infants and eat down bis wife, stabbing her SO times as she fought to save heowlf and children. She died ln hospital. His ' orgy ef madness spent, the man fled from ths blood-red shambles that had been his home and Is presumed to have suicided. His hat and stained knife were found on the edge of the. Alberrtl canal. The tragedy occurred last night In a local rooming house. Inquiry hu revealed ln what destitution tbs Asukos lived. Three weeks -tio their second child was born. Tbe mother wu unable to nurse tbe Infant and Asuko did bot bave money to buy milk. Asuko and another Japanese worked four months near Bj-mfield, cutting pulpwood. Unable to collect wages, tbey entered suit lb court. Asuko spent bl* money bringing witnesses for a hearing on October 12, but the case was adjourned until tbs snd of Nov-smber. Tbs combination Of bU destitution and failure to find relief ln bis court sctlon, apparently drove him.to bis mad at- tick on his family. *■' WARNED LODGERS Tbe cries of Urs. Asuko warned other lodgers and tbey called for tbs polios, but Asuko In the meantime had dashed from the room brandishing a knife, and had fled. Consta-Vp A. Taylor found the two children, one aged two years and tbs other three weeks, lying ln their beds, terribly slashe…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0405265
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text