BOXER'S DEATH
YOUNG WOMAN ACQUITTED
SYDNEY, December 5,
In the Criminal Court Blanche Elizabeth Petersen, aged 18, was found not guilty of the murder of Leslie Tickner. Petersen denied the truth of her original statement to the police that she had accidentally' shot Tickner. That statement, she contended, had been made while she was in an overwrought condition.
The Coroner on November 13 returned a verdict that Leslie Tickner, a boxer, died from a bullet wound. He committed Petersen for trial on a charge of murder. Detectives produced a statement allegedly made by Petersen in which she admitted accidentally shooting Tickner at his flat on the night of October 9. She playfully challenged him to put up his hands. He seized her arm, and the manner in which he pulled her arm caused the revolver to go off.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 9
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138BOXER'S DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 9
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