Laughed at Murder.

Manawatu Herald, 10 November 1904, Page 3

Laughed at Murder.

WIFE STRANGLED IN SIGHT OF HER DAUGHTER. With a little five-year-old girl as the only spectator, George Turner, a young Grimsby sailor, is alleged to have strangled his wife and afterwards attempted to commit suicide. Turner was attached to a Continental trading vessel, and during the intervals between the long voyages he lived with his wife in Grimsby. Recently they quarelled, and the woman left her home, and, taking her* little five-year-old girl With her, went to live with another seaman named Brown, at a house in Freshney street. One day Brown sailed on a voyage and Turner returned from one. Turner then went straight to the house in Freshney street, and there found his wife, her sister, and her little girl. He appeared friendly, and announced his intention of staying the night. After supper he and his wife went to bed, taking the little girl with them, while the sister slept on the sofa downstairs. Nt seven o’clock next morning the sister was awakened by Turner, who called out to her: “ Come up here, Annie, I’ve something to show you.” She went upstairs, and was met at the bedroom door by Turner, who was laughing loudly. “There’s your sister ; have a look at her* ? I have killed her .”

Looking towards the bed, the young woman saw her sister lying across it dead, her face being swollen and discoloured. She had evidently been strangled. The little five-year-old girl was sitting by the dead woman’s side, crying bitterly.

With a shriek the woman rushed out of the room. Running into the street, she met a policeman, who quickly ran up to the bedroom. In the few minutes that had elapsed, however, Turner had succeeded in swallowing a quantity of laudanum, and was lying across the bed in a stupor. The policeman at once administered an emetic, and, obtaining assistance, walked the man up and down the room for nearly three hours, until at last the effects of the poison began to wear off. Then Turner was removed to the Central Hospital and placed under arrest. He is twenty-three years of age and a native of Plaistow. When charged with the murder of his wife, he exhibited great remorse, and cried lor several hours.

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