TWELVE YEARS.
HUSBAND KILLS WIFE. . SYDNEY, December 20. A labourer, Victor Pomfret, aged 38, was sentenced to-day to 12 years' imprisonment for manslaughter, having been responsible for the death of his wife, Ellen, aged 30. The evidence showed that Pomfret ; violently assaulted his wife by kicking I her, although she was about to become [a mother. This resulted in her death. t Judge Sheridan described the prisoner a loathsome person who was lucky
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 302, 21 December 1935, Page 9
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73TWELVE YEARS. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 302, 21 December 1935, Page 9
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