NOT GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED MURDER

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6677, 2 August 1928, Page 7

NOT GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED MURDER

Guilty of Attempting To Administer Poison VERDICT IN',CASE ' ’ AGAINST MRS KOERBIN Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The case against Mrs. Koorhia concluded to-day, the jury return- • lug a verdict of not guilty of attempted murder hut guilty of at- . tempting to administer poison with attempt to injure or annoy. The Jury also brought in a strong recommendation to mercy. - Presenting tho case for the' defence Mr. Sievwright aaid that accused de-‘,. nied any attempt to injure her' husband, Eoorbih. The, parties wero-hot on good toms and Mrs. Koerbin’s’evidence would indicate that she wanted to do -something that would stop her husband V conduct. The poison was obtained for showing . her hdsband she could' retaliate. Her action was only a gesture. Tho tin was left in the scullery so that her husband- could seep it. She thought it w,aßi:h r harmless powder but wanted her husband to think, it.was dangerous. She. placed tho stuff in, a box whore she • knew heir husband -would find it. and; say,‘‘look here, what’s the meaning of this. Let’s have a settlement of, our ■ differences; ’’ ? ;"V -1 She .left the dining' rpom. slide open so v that Koorbin, could see her putting / tho stuff in' tho food. ■ She know ha would not-eat-it. - . : , V, She would deny she put glass in the food - and tho, only inference could be - that Koorbin put the glass in tho food. Koorbin’s vomiting was duo to, his ' over-indulgence in liquor taken at parties;'' The" other sickness was due ; to a cold. "■ ~ - - ' When' accused was giving . evidence . Mr. Macassoy objected to the line of examination saying it was: known there - had been;;domestic, trouble." , v His'Hohour remarked: ; “The worse you moke .out Koorbin to bo, Mr, Sier-.' wright, - th^V ’stronger; you make' ..the / case ypnrself.i show ydur. ' v , client had all the more reason .to get fid of,him.’’v_ -,,,, ' : f Under / cross-examination .accused: said she- did not .- think the poison would; do harm norv did she : tell the detectives she - had put , poison in the V food supply .to frighten him.. AI- ; though her husband was objectionable she /did. not leave the house because ; she had. two'children. She considered ■ her hnisband Worth about £50,000. •'V Mr. Siey wright asked - the jury to. dismiss the charge of attempted mnr-, ’; dor and- submitted there' was no .evi-:; denco- that"‘accused, oven, administered - poison or that she even did , anything with jntoht te injure, or annoy her . husband. There was nothing, secretive about her notions. 1 • ' ' Mr. “Macasspy declared , the . defoncYv;.. - was the most extraordinary: he, had ;.v----ever heard.'-/ V ■: ■■■■in ■....