HIRE-PURCHASE DEBTS
Woman’s Alleged Reply To Rebuke MELBOURNE, June 24. A woman rebuked by her husband for her hire purchase debts went out and bought a rifle on hire purchase <nd shot him dead, police 1014 the Melbourne Coroner’s Court tdday. Then she took a taxi to Moorabbin police station, where she walked in and said: "I have just shot my husband." Police told the Court the woman added: “I don’t know why I did something like this but you can’t talk things over with my husband.” Mr H. W. Pascoe, the Coroner, was holding an inquest on Ronald Sudweeks. aged 46. a butcher, who died in hospital on May 26 from a bullet wound in the head. His wife, Thelma Jessie Sudweeks, aged 35, mother of three children, was in custody in the Court. She Is charged with murder. The Coroner committed her for trial. Mrs Sudweeks. tall and bespectacled, wept when the Coroner directed her trial to b gin in the Criminal Court sitting starting on July 18. Bail was fixed at £5OO with a similar surety.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29240, 25 June 1960, Page 13
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