KILLED HIS DAUGHTER.
WOMAN OF BAD REPUTE.
OLD FRENCHMAN ACQUITTED.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) PAEIS. Deo. 10. Eugene Lorimer, aged 82 years, who had worked hard in a flourmill all. his life, and had been awarded the Government medal for zealous workers, fatally shot his own daughter. The latter hacl been her father's housekeeper for ten years, after having been divorced by her husband on account of her drunken habits and laxity of morals.
Ono night the woman, it is said, grossly insulted her father, and threatened to have him imprisoned. The old man took a gun, loaded it, and fired the. charge point-blank at his daughter, who died instantly.
The old man then dined calmly, lit a pipe, and, while he was smoking, awaited tho coming of the gendarmes to arrest him.
When they arrived he said: "I havesimply rid the world of a bad woman."
A jury at the Oiso assizes unanimously acquitted Lorimcr when he was tried for murder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18890, 12 December 1924, Page 11
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