WIFE MURDERED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 December 1924, Page 5

WIFE MURDERED.

E3SQLDIER LOSES CONTROL. B 7 C.BLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT J T ' : /.LONDON, Dec. 15. ustice Sharman, in sentencing' to deatt Arthur Ro'Vert Canham, aged. 55 a pper-maker, for iriurdering his wife* stakl: “My view, is .that this man’s moal sejf-,control; was ..broken clown by wd service and .subsequent misfortu.;es. I shali report thus to the Home ’ ’; . Janhaiu gave evidence that he served iilthe South Africart and Great Wars. a Pfhsion of £8 quarterly of yuch 'he gave his wife £7 10s. He lid no regular work .for two and a hlf years, and liis wife was recently ,'uagging’’ over his failure to earn omethiug. ■ !■ Oil the morning. of the crime he went /n search of work, but was told that he was too old ' and only fit for the dust, heap. He returned 'and found no breakfast. “My wife told,me to clear ’he said. “I lost my temper and struck her with a hammer. I then tried to commit, suicide with gas fumes.’.’, . , . 6 Canham concluded: “That’s what you get for serving your country.”