A SENSATIONAL ARREST.
Christchurch Citizen Accused of a Serious Crime.
Bail Refused.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, Last night. Quite a sensation was caused in town on Saturday night, when it became known that a well-known confidential clerk in the office of a legal gentleman now in England had been arrested on a very serious charge. The gentleman, with his wife, was just leaving the football ground at Lancaster Park when he was arrested by Inspector Ellison and Detective Marsack. He was put in a cab, and his wife insisted upon accompanying him to the lock-up. The charge is that he did attempt to procure a medical practitioner to commit the crime of murder. The person whom it is said he wished to have murdered is his wife. Quite a number of influential people visited the police station, both last night and this morning, to endeavor to bail the accused out, but the charge was considered so serious that the authorities declined to release him. He will be brought up at the Magistrate's Court tomorrow morning, when a remand will be asked for.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9834, 6 August 1900, Page 7
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182A SENSATIONAL ARREST. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9834, 6 August 1900, Page 7
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