MURDER OF WIFE
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SYDNEY (Received September 16. 11.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 16. In the criminal court to-day Harold Ferguson, aged 43, a farmer, who lives near Gosford, was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife on August 31. Evidence was given by a neighbour that Ferguson deliberately shot his wife outside his house, and threatened the life of a young man who sought to take the rifle from him. Ferguson's defence was that his wife was accidentally shot during a 'struggle after a dispute in which she threatened to leave him and take their child with her when she went to live with another man.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 17 September 1935, Page 12
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