FARMER’S CRIME
MURDER NEAR GOBFORD DEATH SENTENCE PASSED. Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, September 16. At the Criminal Court to-day, Harold Ferguson, aged 43, a farmer, near Gosford, was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife on August 31. Evidence was given by a neighbour that Ferguson deliberately shot-his wife outside the house, and threatened the life of a young man who sought to take the rifle from him. Ferguson’s defence was that his wife was accidentally shot during a struggle after a dispute in which his wife threatened to leave him and take the child with Iver in order to live with another man.
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Evening Star, Issue 22136, 17 September 1935, Page 8
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105FARMER’S CRIME Evening Star, Issue 22136, 17 September 1935, Page 8
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