CHARGE OF MURDER.
TRIAL OF MERRETT. LONDON, Feb. 4. At the trial at Edinburgh of John Donald Merrett, on the charge of the murder of his mother, AValter Penn, Airs Alerrett’s brother-in-law, said that Donald told Airs Penn: “1 did not do it, but I will confess if you like.” Witness did not take this seriously.
Nurse Grant gave evidence that she overheard a conversation at the hospital. Airs Penn told Airs Merrett that she must have fallen. Airs Alerrett replied: “No. It was an extraordinary thing. I heard an explosion. Did not Donald do it? Ho is such a naughty boy.” Elizabeth Christie, dancing instructress, whom Donald sometimes took out, gave evidence that Donald said that his mother shot herself, possibly accidentally. ■ Experts testified that suicide was improbable.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 58, 5 February 1927, Page 9
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