ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4219, 16 February 1921, Page 2

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

MALAOULVS I'FCUJAK CASK. (I'er Press Association.) Christchnt'ch, February 15. M the Supreme Court, Frederick Mfiiaqiiiu, aged 23, wa„s charged ii ith attempting to murder bi.s m iie aged 21, at .New Brighton, nit No--1 ember 7. .Mr Donnelly, Crown Prosecutor, Slid the main points lor the jury to take into consideration nere: ' (I) Why did accused not admit baling -hot his wile immediately alter the occurrence; (2) Why did be not ,<o tor help!- (.'!) Whv did lie no, immediately eall a doctor? .Mrs .\lalai|iiin said they bad hem lil'ittg together ever ,-inee ii,,. ~,(,. tack, and sic regarded the prose"! proceedings a,- sheer nonsense. Accused, in lite course of ei idem ~. said he heard a sound as of ; , match bfiii" struck and got tin |o investigate*, fie found nothing and went back to bed. As be uas placing the revolver under (be pillow it exploded, Hi,, wife gave a shiver and a groan and then she l ; , v WO. ness (bought he had killed Imr. 11,. itimped out ol hed and lil a candle. llk wife turned on her left side and raised herself in hed. Witness helped he,- o„t, life remembered saying something about her being shot and told her he would go for a. doctor. Ills Hlie tVUllltl Hot, lei llilll h'tlVC he, In * 11, ■ murnftig he thought it looked had lor loin )h„i |io hadl.T got ; , doctor. When his uilo made the suggestion thai be bad boon shop walking he grasped 0 and -tuck to it. When he was told by I,lm authorities that the wound could not h.ne possible been sell'-inllictetl b" was sick of the whole business and came out with the inn: .-for,;. i His Honour deferred bis summing no till nekt day. \iai,A(,)|-|.\ not <;rn/rv. Chr'istehurch, February Hi. ' In the Mal:„,uin case, the Judge's summing in, generally favoured ac- j earned. ' " j The jurv, after an hour's retire 1 front, returned a verdict of not . guilty.