WIFE KILLED BY BOMBS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1940, Page 4

WIFE KILLED BY BOMBS

AFTER MURDER ATTEMPT? LONDON, October 1. A woman, whose husband was alleged to have attempted to murder her in an Anderson shelter, was later killed by bombs when the hospital to which she had been taken received a direct hit. A solicitor, Mr. E. Weale, made this statement at Dartford when the husband, Cyril William Percy Clark, 30, labourer of Dartford, was sent for trial at Kent Assizes on a charge of attempting to murder his wife. Mr. Weale said that Mrs. Clark was fuond lying unconscious in the shelter by an ambulance driver and a nurse. She was removed, to the hospital, and an operation performed which appeared tp be successful. But shortly afterwards the hospital was bombed. The ward in which Mrs. Clark was lying received a direct hit, and she died as a result of the bombing. The ambulance driver said that in the shelter, lying near Mrs Clark, were her two children fast asleep. Evidence was given that Clark telephoned for the ambulance and accompanied his wife to hospital. The doctor who operated said that she had every chance of recovering. He was satisfied ■ that death was' due to the bombing. Det.-Sgt.. White, of Dartford, said that when arrested Clark described how he and his wife' sat with the children in the shelter throughout | the night of Sept. 1 and 2, and, went on: “Before it got light we had a quarrel because I asked her to let me go into lodgings and have a separation. I lost my temper. I struck her on the head with my fist. She fell back as though she was unconscious.”