MURDER CHARGE
• a# I- ■' ; • : ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL (Per Press Association —Copyright). , : * DUNEDIN, September, 21. ■. Upon his discharge from hospital.to-, day, Arthur Richardson, aged $2, a, labourer,;,was charged with the murder , of bis wife, Jessie Rjehardsonin the home of their daughter ; at Totokja, pn f July 17. Accused, it was alleged, shoe his wife in the abdomen from the open door of a bedroom as she sat with her dying daughter Accused had previously been, an‘ inmate ofsa mental institution. After the shooting, the accused was found with severe wounds in. his chest, \ b©, having turned a double barrelled gun on himself. I After twelve witnesses were- heard, accused pleaded not guilty fciid was committed fit trilih
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1937, Page 6
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117MURDER CHARGE Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1937, Page 6
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