ACQUITTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 214, 10 September 1931, Page 9

ACQUITTED.

' , ' . ' ' ' - WOMAN on murder charge:

J®*! FINDS INSANITY^

•. . • .... * A3REES. WITH^VERDICT..

, < B ? T ?legraph.—Press Association.)^ ' j r ■ WESTPORT, Wednesday. , tri^ Da :,^ Upham, aged - 21' years, to-day on-a. charge , of. murdering "sbani, Frederick Upham,..aged. 32 who was found fatally- shot in j an ? J' shed, on August 7, was-found-not' y on the ground of insanity. V. ; , r ® th e^ ce .. on lines previously, given witness was given-by,-the comni! ; ?l lza^ etll Watson- said accused; ; 3!? Ed of ill-treatment by ;hcr late 4ildrpn\ regarding: the Kii |f -i ® taken from her.; Accused •ould 'W a t. th l kst tbhl S she did, ishe She had no. money, e and no children. - ... ■ ' ev^®nce of ; Dr. Dickel- and-.' Dr.- . Bniw tv x 'superintendent of the ; . rict %pital and-the;Kawa- : W j). Hospital, was corroborated ChfigiV ■ superintendent' of; the (jfifjjeja Rental Hospital. . ; These iaiia th of puerperal then a r 616 be lucid' intervals and 2?fo?r ictim & L f tions. , ,7 :to gu „„ , ® j ! evidence was called Glance ar y lack: of; mental n>»«. • . : ? the ehoot" v ;|lll7 '. counsel, admitted *adsubmitted thatimedical I ■ lmony went to prove;4hat e ?KL^ ,)alan,:ed ' wße, '' !;e,- e or ; 'the Crown> submitted':that + n °f in.-. '■At .acts of .Uphain, ?and Wrong tiat s^e knew.she^was up,< the. jury *ith. a 7pr .,® inu t es ) and, then'returned :of guilty rom the: r? - Upham ma^e an or^er -_th a t' Miniaf!. T clur ' n D "the pleasure".-of ; satiafactio-n"f a< l < l e( l)' if •it was~any qu3te concurred with ° W