WIFE'S DISCOVERY.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 14, 9 May 1933, Page 9

WIFE'S DISCOVERY.

The Crown Prosecutor said that Mrs. Robsoh would say that about daybreak she was awakened by her husband crying. She found blood on him, and he was in great pain. He had been wounded by shot. The medical evidence was that the man was found in a serious condition with, a gaping \vound, beside 13 small punctured wounds, which showed from how the shot had spread that the shot must have been fired from the doorway. When questioned, Manuel said he had got a gun two or' three weeks before, and he went on to'say that' ho had gono into Kati Ilobson's room and shot him in bed. Ho was' immediately warned of the seriousness of his statement. Ho described in detail what had happened'and where he had left the gun, and he could only have described the exact position in which the gun. was found if he had put it there himself. : After being again warned, Manuel gave a written statement. Counsel gave notice that he objected to the admissibility of this statement. Mr. Meredith said that according to the statement, Manuel had been very annoyed with feobson. He got up and took the gun and shot Bobson from the door of his room. "I did not intend to kill him," ' Manuel said. I wanted to hurt him because he had given me a hiding." Manuel had passed only "Standard 3, and both his parents were dead. ■ , • .... The case was : adjourned until tomorrow. .