MURDER CHARGE
WIFE BEFORE COURT
Suffering from the effects of a knife wound in his chest, Maurice Bernard aged about 30, was taken by the Free Ambulance from his home at 34 Marion Street, Wellington, last night, but he died before reaching hospital. Subsequently his wife, Lena Rosita Bernard, domestic, 33, was arrested by Detectives N. J. McPhee and A. W. Hedwig, and this morning she was charged before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court with the murder of her husband.
On the application of DetectiveSargeant E. H. Compton the accused was remanded until February 28.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1945, Page 6
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99MURDER CHARGE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1945, Page 6
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