NOT GUILTY.
MURDER CHARGE FAILS. FIERCE FAMILY FEUD. ■ J (Received 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. William Jlurfin -was found not guilty of the murder of James Stephens at Manangatang. The evidence showed that Murfin and family lived in terror of Stephens, who was the divorced husband of Murfin's sister. It was alleged that Stephens repeatedly threatened to shoot accused. , Another sister of Murlin gave evidence that in 1918 one of her brothers was killed, it was thought, through being thrown from a horse, trot a later possibility that he was murdered -by Stephens was openly discussed, because of Stephens' 'behaviour. Her father had taught the whole family how to use a revolver. Witness further stated that Stephens, who had a violent temper, once tried to murder, his wife by putting her under a wagon and then driving the vehicle over her.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 251, 22 October 1924, Page 5
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