TRAGEDY RECALLED
AUCKLAND DIVORCE CASE , (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Sixty divorce cases are occupying two Judges on the Supreme Court. A tragedy at Tully, Queensland, on 20th September, 1927, was recalled by a case in which Donald M'Pherson petitioned for a decree nisi against Amy Wilhelmina Sarah Banks M'Pherson on the ground of misconduct with Denis John Moynihan, formerly of Auckland. Counsel for the petitioner said that Mrs. M'Pherson deserted her husband in January, 1927, went to Australia with Moynihan, lived with him at Tully, and on 21st October, 1027, stood her trial on a charge of ,wilfully murdering him. He was shot . through the body with a sporting gun. Self-de-fence was pleaded, and the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty." Mrs. M'Pherson had acknowledged her misconduct with Moynihan. The petitioner was granted a decree nisi and custody of two children now in his care.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 121, 24 May 1928, Page 12
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148TRAGEDY RECALLED Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 121, 24 May 1928, Page 12
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