VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER
THE WAG6A WAB6A TRAGEDY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, September 7. The third trial of Mrs Lilian Anderson for the murder of her husband near AVagga Wagga was concluded at AVagga AVagga to-day, the jury on this occasion returning a verdict of manslaughter. Mrs Anderson was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. Mr Justice Markell observed, when passing sentence, that if ho had been asked whether he had heard of a worse case of manslaughter his answer would be no.
[Moncrieff * Anderson was shot in the head. At the coroner’s inquiry the police produced evidence that Mrs Anderson, unknown to her late husband, carried on correspondence with Edward Morey, who was recently sentenced to death for the murder of Percy Smith. Letters were also written by Morey from goal to the accused woman. Anderson was a Crown witness against Morey.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 13
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