ALLEGED MURDER
HALF-GASTE CHARGED WITH • DEOWNING HTS WIFE. By Telegraph-Press Aeeociation Dargaville, November 6. The adjourned case of Edward Campbell, a half-caste Maori, charged wiih the "murder ■of his wife at. Oroa on or about July 19, was reopened yesterday, before Mr. .Hunt, S.M. Sergeant Griffiths prosecuted, nnd the prisoner \mß defended by Mr. D. L. Boss. Dr. Beattie, • superintendent of tho Avondale Mental Hospital, gflve evidence thai; the necused, who had been admitted to the hospital, told him on two occasions that he had put Mr wife in the river, and had drowned her. • He arrived at the conclusion that accused was not insane.
Constable Boag deposed that lib had 'arrested the necused as a lunatic, and that on two occasions accused declared that he hud drowned his wife. At . f hc lime of the arrest thp condition of the accused warranted him being regarded I as a lunatic.
Considerable other evidence was tendered, showing that accused had been in the company of some witnesses at, the time the murder was alleged to have happened* Tho'casß has not concluded.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 37, 7 November 1918, Page 8
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180ALLEGED MURDER Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 37, 7 November 1918, Page 8
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