A WIFE’S REVENGE
ARRESTED FOR MURDER. HUSBAND DELIBERATELY SHOT. SEQUEL TO DOMESTIC? QUARREL. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Dec. 30, 11.45 a.m.) ADELAIDE, Dec. 30. Edward Leonard Clegget,, .a farmer, residing hear Bordertown, ivas shot dead, and his wife, Muriel Clegget, has -been arrested and charged with his murder.
The woman is alleged to have told the police that her husband came into the kitchen demanding' breakfast. He threw a pie dish, which hit her on the head and then threw her to the floor, saying he would kill her. She freed herself, ran outside and snatched a gun which her son had just brought back from a duck-shooting expedition. Geogre Clegget, aged 13 years* loaded it for her, and when her husband ap proaehed she threatened him. He replied “Do so! ’’ and she then fired, hitting him in the shoulder. A second shot hit him in the neck, and he died before the police or doctor arrived.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 December 1924, Page 5
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157A WIFE’S REVENGE Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 December 1924, Page 5
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