HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 6

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

MAN ATTEMPTED >'::-MXrRDBE. v /...';'..''-v''-. . -k : : pathetic lettf^:,:^ ~;.:.' (By., TclesraplL^Press. Association.! ./.■..■ 1 Auckland, February i. George Oliver was,'at the' Police Court torday,.,committed for. trial' at''thelSupreme ' Court charged' with having attempted, to murder his wife at Kingsland, 1 and to commit! suicide.,' 'He pleaded' not guilty.' A .letter,' found! in accused's' : pocket, was' handed in ■as evidence.' It stated: . ' : ;.".:"'.::

; 'I am on the ■ eve of committing one of: the worst "crimes ever committed in this district I have a load that is ;heavier ;than : I'canrbear. .I have been shut;put 'of the comforts, of.'my family by.■■ the ignorant. cussedness of my wife, and 1 must have: my : revenge. My life is 'no use to me for I have: trouble on' every hand, so I intend to do,away'with myself, and my wife.-: She. has been the means.of my■living an .unnatural miserable life,■'and in'order for not. to have the 'benefits of the. little I have, I:havo derided to take this course. There' is sure to be.someone that.will blame me, but before being \ too rough, try, to: think how. you could put up with: what'l have' had,to in, a' lonely: home by myself, cold,desolate, ■ misorable, i and none to speak' to. Mt.'has. preyed; on my mind and got the' best of nio." ' ...

; The evidence of accused's: wife, was to the: effect that he had been drinking, and-in 'consequence' she had been .living apart from .him, but:: 6ome two ' hours before he attempted to' shoot 'her, she had promised" to forgive : him Tand. .care for him'if he'gave/up drink.- ,-.,''