ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 114, 13 May 1908, Page 3

ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE

Daniel Kennedy came up on remand tins attecnooJi charged-with .the attempted murder" 6f" his' wifeftlirve, on the afternoon,of_Tu es d%, May.s, .hy,shootfS. at her. w.ifcha dry conauct«d..fpf. the.-lir.dsecutiQß,' and ■ alr, J; ?• Luricon aefend.e.a. „ ' Olive Kennedy,, wife,..p^...the. .. np.c'nsed, f al « * h *£.?. h ? h ad been marriedVveara / K nl, havln = arrived 12 nipnthj ago if 0 ™ -Brisbane, Queensland, where" theY )T. c , re m arri .od. 'Her- husband, "who Vas 3, litliographei;,-4iad been addicted' V periodic bouts- of drinking,,, but up to''Saturday Jffay 2/ Tie had'ueen fairly "sober for home ahoul lialf-past' ■ onivaiia wenTi up.staiys,.going- out again about four.i'clock and returning same\vhef"e-nearo."3o She .noticed; he was-nearly-dffink; teaT'He replied that.she- could.get tea for the" boarders,referring. to some lodgers 'they Had. and useC a .quantity, of very dirty and abusive language to her. gjfedia not answer him. - .' -•. : " .-"-••"™ - i .".'J. h .P. r . e continued Mrs Kennedy, "but after retumii.j from a walk with V'lady friend she found him in her bedropni. ; .Witness said nothing but went and. ; s . at :P;3?r d .V n !: a ,? t r lif: foirpwed her, and used more abusive "language and she was obliged'tbVgoriglii; out of the house. She arid her friend returned in about half an hour, mcl," finding him quiet, she•' ret'urhe'd to bed. ~''." ~ On Sunday morning, about five o'clock, witness sent hef/oon up to"infbr/i her husband ancl. the '' h'ousejioii' "generally that breaHast was/ready.- The Boy returned, arid saifl that his'lather : had tKreatened "to . throw,' a Tiottle; atl-him." Accused follo.U-e"a hitn.lnto therppm, and ..after abusing'her, lie'was ' reprimanded by the bay, and "fatifer'ana son - iKe'n'fought together,: the ejcler. mail afterwafdsVgoing upstairs. .Matters' were" quiet; uiital the evening, '. when"' shortly■' after"" seven o'clock, he' cairie ."to hejCaiia:'tqld her ■to get ready, as" it" was to >t- heriast nighfc on .earth—she~"would ".-tie. deail" before momiiig. r.ThrsJteor place in tKr'kitchen," •and that \Vas the | last she"-saV of- him that.night., " .'~ '--■■-■-•■-">- -. . -- - (Proceeding.)" - .~ v 3