MURDER TRIAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 7

MURDER TRIAL

THE AUCKLAND CASE

(BY TELEGRAPH PSEBP ASSOCIATION > AUCKLAND, Feb. 14. At the Supreme Court, Frederok bpearpomt, aged 23, was charged that •on November 3, at^Avondale, he murdered Lis. mother--by striking her with >r». The accused's jsteofaibher de- •■ Mcd .-that after the tragedy he had iemarked: that he supposed the mother had been nagging again. / Dr Murray, who attended the accused, m gaol, said that Spearooint was suffering from extensive tubercular di- ? ea.l c',e', .£ nd tis condition would cause irritability;' He seemed little below the average ipentality. ' • .