CHARGE OF MURDER.

Mataura Ensign, 5 June 1912, Page 5

CHARGE OF MURDER.

AN INSANE MAN'S ACTION. ,BY ELE3TRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION. SYDNEY, June •!. "William Jones, who was charged with the murder of his wife at Windsor lastApril, was found not guilty on thoi ground of insanity. The jury made a recommendation that the accused should be kept under strict surveillance. A fearful domestic tragedy took place at the Peninsula, near Windsor, on April IG, when William Jones, a coachpainter, residing at Pitt street, Peninsula, was arrested and charged with assaulting his wife, who subsequently died, j Jones had been drinking for some years | and recently a prohibiten order was taken out against him. On April 16 he went home at 1 o'clock for lunch, wash-! Ed, and was sitting down waiting for dinner. He appeared to be in a very bad temper. Suddenly he got up, went out into the yard, rushed back with an. axe, and went to liii, his wife. The latter, after scuffling with him, got away. Jones followed, and caught her in the yard as she was rushing to the nextdoor neighbor's, and hit her on the head. Mrs Jones fell, and he then hit her another blow with the sharp edge of the axe, cutting open the skull. Jones was arrested, and the unconscious victim of his frenzied attack was conveyed to the hospital by the ambulance. Dr Callnghan -examined th;» wounds, and stated that there seemed no possible hope of her recovery. Thereare six children, ranging in age from three years to IS.