A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
WIFE SHOOTS HUSBAND. (Receiver! 10.15 a.m.) Adelaide, this day. Leonard deceit, a farmer residing near Bordertown, was shot dead, and his wife, Muriel Cleggett, has been forested 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 liil 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 sons had just brought back from a duckshooting expedition. George Cleggett, aged 13, loaded it for her, and when her husband approached she threatened him. He replied, "Do so," and she fired, hitting him in the shoulder. The second shot hit him in the neck, and he died before the police and doctor arrived.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2061, 30 December 1924, Page 5
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139A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2061, 30 December 1924, Page 5
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