AUCKLAND DIVORCES
JUDGES KEPT BUSY. TULLY TRAGEDY RECALLED. (Per Press AtMoviationi. Auckland, May 24. Sixty divorce cases are occupying two Judges in the Supreme Court. The tragedy at Tully, Queensland, on September 20. 1927, was recalled by one case in which Donald McPherson petitioned for a decree nisi against Amy Wiihemena Sarah Banks McPherson, on the ground of misoonduct with Denis John Moynihan, formerly of Auckland. Counsel for the petitioner said that Mrs. McPherson deserted her husband in January, 1927, went to Australia with Moynihan and lived with him at Tully. On October 21, 1927, she stood her trial on a charge of wilfully murdering him. He was shot through the body with a sporting gun Self-defence was pleaded and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Mrs. McPherson had acknowledged her misconduct with Moynihan. The petitioner was granted a decree nisi and the custody of the two children now in his care.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 137, 24 May 1928, Page 5
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