A FARMER’S DEATH
WIFE ACQUITTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. ADELAIDE, April 24, At the trial oy: Airs Cleggett the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. [Edward Leonard Cleggett, a farmer, residing near Bordertown, was shot dead on December 30, and his wife, Muriel Cleggett, was .arrested and charged with his murder. The woman is alleged to have told the police that her husband came into the kitchen, demanding breakfast. He threw a pie dish, which hit her on the head, and then threw her to the floor, saying he would kill her. She freed herself and ran outside and snatched a gun which her sons had just brought back from a duck-shooting expedition. George Cleggett, aged thirteen, loaded it for her, and when her husband approached she threatened him. He replied “Do so,” and she fired, hitting him in (he shoulder. A second shot hit him in the neck, and he died before the doctor arrived.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 5
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161A FARMER’S DEATH Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 5
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