FEIGNED MADNESS.
AFTER MURDERING WIFE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGH'j (Received Julv 28, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. Frederick Southgate, aged 52, a farm labourer, visited the Colchester asylum and sought admission on the ground that lie had lost his memory. Shortly afterwards Southgate, was arrested and charged with murdering Ins wife, who, though only twenty-two when she married Southgate, was a widow and the mother of seven children. The Southgates were .judicially separated last, week, and it is alleged that Southgate called at his wife’s cottage and stabbed her to death with a butcher’s knife. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 July 1924, Page 7
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