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MURDER ALLEGED

WOMAN'S DEATH

CLARK ON TRIAL

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The trial commenced at the Supreme Court today of Thomas Francis' Clark, aged 33, a labourer, on a charge of murdering Bertha May Bennett at Papatoetoe on January 17. Counsel for the Crown outlined the evidence on the lines of that given in the lower Court. Alice Whowell, mother of the deceased, said that her daughter and the accused had spoken of marrying, and it had been her intention to assist them to go on a farm when they married." . . . ■ ■ Alfred George Hamilton said that ho had been living in Mrs. Bennett's house for seven or eight years, and they shared tho same bedroom. The accused in the last eighteen months had visited the house twice or thrico weekly. On the night of the woman's doarh he awakened to hear her saying, "What arc you doing in here; get out of here at once." He'then heard the report of. a gun and saw the accused backing out of the room. While he was searching" for the light switch he heard another shot. He then found the accused, who remarked that he had missed himself (the accused).

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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 9

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MURDER ALLEGED Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 9

MURDER ALLEGED Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 9