GIRL ACQUITTED
CHARGE OF MURDER EXPLANATION TO JURY tU PA.—B.v Electric Telegraph—Copvrigptl PERTH, 13th July. The jury, after only fifteen minutes deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which Eunice Mary Hornby, aged 18 years, was charged with murdering her fatheif. The girl was discharged. Explaining to the jury the circumstances of the crime, the girl said that her father had a terrible temper and had threatened to “get mother” when she returned from the neighbours’ house. “I decided that I would shoot father rather than allow the other members of the family to do so,” she said. “I obtained my brother's rifle and saw father reading a paper in front of the radio. I came behind him, took careful aim and fired. Father’s head dropped forward.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 16 July 1938, Page 9
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131GIRL ACQUITTED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 16 July 1938, Page 9
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