WIFE MURDER CHARGED
THE HAMILTON TRAGEDY. SMITH ON TRIAL f [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 24. Tlie trial of Arthur Walter Smith', aged fifty, a painter, of Hamilton, on a charge of murdering his wife, Loia Alexandra Smith, aged twenty-nine years, opened in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, to-day before Mr Justice Herdman and a jury. The Crown Prosecutor, in his opening address, detailed the events leading up to the tragedy, and stated that he intended to show that Smith was, quite sane, and was suffering from no' mental disease when he killed his wife. ' Ho understood the defence would bo' insanity, and a verdict of not guilty would be asked for on that ground. [The woman was found dead on tho floor of the bedroom with wounds in the throat and body, and Smith himself had throat wounds.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20958, 24 November 1931, Page 10
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