TICKET CLUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

TICKET CLUE.

that cleared husband.

OOOGEE MURDER.

ovwa jauAvan, Mnjcrie Kathleen Meagher John Meagher, t f"™® to be battered tt : at Coogee is one of thi WKgymg osai in the records o PJNII Aflf pflpjk Walpa nightdress, and half-coverec BiW? the body of the woman wai fac * doWD ttebloodstained pillow. in the fiat, and n< gSLya wwtfe. Money and jewellerj untouched. pen painter, who hat ■ :8 rigl iuJ *° ■ om « work foa ■ W She heard a dot M W. WM n ® "newer to hei ■ waiting in a flat oi B the dead woman's husbanc I M isaTi; followed him to the l»«/ling ■ lniri.' i trying to unlock the door I „ kim that she had beer Meagher. /Meagher, ■ <i»Bl *®t round to the bad I W -iitlil - hMrd . l »m inside, and then Ikn Wipiaed to* C » U *' I "» w tlae "Oman on the ■ k ksk. out ' Meagher called I ra ? brought the I Dcnham, whe I SSSt celled in. He pronounced I Police fell upon tht '***5 increased later when ■ **eZa» fro ? people ■ km °* rimilar appearII "f®? at Thompson'! I gown, a I** handkerchief belonging to him ■ hush there. In the '■ Vfi> !viy wn wa * the front key ol H lef. "ffoer was charged with the I °Mained that Meagher had " ' pistol in town on the ■ le «man, considering ■ I so th»t Jk 0 ' the safety ' ■ nkTf.i i Wea P° n could not be I Nattt jy l w<t * found by the police B *1. * , 11 °* * double bed in the ;■ Wt tfrtimony showed that « *"• were a happy and 1 that he had left ■ 2 o clock on the day gone into town. ® ln George Street, ■ Street, walked up King I C^lfci^»T. Coogeetra,n - He said 9 B° wn and ahirt ■ got bene' * they were gone I fiat a tram ticket was I the evidence of I Sp'**^aad^js°^^ nßtreet I Meagher said he had W fcjSii w newspaper was B. but it was not pro- : I A y Mr " Windeyer, ■ defence, that as the ■ Asft&MiSai murder had

to have gone to Thompson's Bay thrown away the clothes there and then to have got to the city in time to travel on a Creorge Street tram Between 4 and 4.30. Meagher was acquitted after an hoar's deliberation by the jury. The first to greet, him when he stepped from the dock was the mother of his murdered wife.