WAGGA MURDER TRIAL

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 144, 20 June 1934, Page 9

WAGGA MURDER TRIAL

MRS. ANDERSON'S DEFENCE

JURY UNABLE TO AGREE

SYDNEY, Juno 19.

At the Criminal Court today, when Mrs. Lillian Anderson was on trial for the murder of her husband at Wagga, the jury ivas unable to agree and was locked up for the night.

Mrs. Anderson, in the course of her defence, startled the Court by declaring that her .late husband told her ho murdered Percy Smith, for which Edward Morey was convicted and sentenced'to death. She also denied murdering her husband. Sho added: "If I shot him it must have been an accident."

Edward Morey, brought from gaol, declared that he did not know Mrs. Anderson and had never seen tier in his life.

The' Crown Prosecutor described Mrs. Anderson's defence as a cowardly insult to the intelligence of the jury.

On May 11 Mrs. Lillian Anderson was arrested on a charge of murdering her husband, Monerieff -Anderson, at Wagga.

Anderson, who was 33 years of age, was a Crown witness in the trial of Edward Henry Morey, on a ehargo of murdering Percy Smith. . He was shot in the head, the bullet lodging in the brain, and he died later in hospital.

At the Coroner's inquiry the police produced evidence that Mrs. Anderson, unknown to her late husband, had carried on correspondence with Edward Morey. Letters were also stated to have been written by Morey from gaol to the accused woman.