DEATH OF WOMAN.
MANSLAUGHTER VERDICT.
PAINTER SENT TO PRISON.
(Received September 17, 11.53 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 17. At tho Sydney Criminal Court to-day Frederick Laurence, aged 62, painter, was charged with the murder of Miriam Merriman at North Sydney on May 23, 1928. Ho was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
Accused, who was adjudged unfit to plead at. the original trial, has been under observation ever since.
The defence was that the rifle with which the woman was killed was accidentally discharged.
Miriam Merriman was found shot through the head, apparently with a pea rifle, in a house at Middle Harbour, North Sydney. The police arrested Frederick Laurence, who had lived with tho woman for 20 years and claimed to be her husband. On June 23 Laurence was tried for murder, declared temporarily insane and ordered to be conlinc.l in a mental hospital for obscrvat lUII.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20363, 18 September 1929, Page 11
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