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POLICEMAN SUED FOR DIVORCE SHOOTS WIFE BEFORE JUDGE’S EYES (Rec. January 28, 8.45 p.m.) London, January 28. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Express” reports a sensation in a city court, a policeman who was sued for divorce having shot his wife dead before the eyes of the Judge. After the wife had described her sufferings the husband admitted his faults. . He added. “I have changed and promise to treat her kindly. I did not know before what it was to be lonely.” The Judge asked: “Will you give him a chance, madame?” “No,” replied the woman. “I cannot live with him again.” She turned away, and the husband put his hand into his pocket and drew a revolver. There was a flash and the -wife fell with a wound in her throat. Before he could be overpowered the husband fired two bullets into his own head, and fell across his wife’s body. The woman is dead, but the husband is expected.to recover.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 105, 29 January 1924, Page 7
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168COURT SENSATION Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 105, 29 January 1924, Page 7
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