DOMESTIC TRAGEDY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 14

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY

CHARGE OF MURDER HUSBAND SENT FOR TRIAL After an inquest in Melbourne on April 3 into the death of Grace Weston, aged 31, who was found dead at, her home at Brunswick, on March 14, John McKenzie Weston, butcher, husband of the dead woman, was committed for trial on a charge of murder. Constable Purccll said on the night, of March 14 he heard a man shouting for help. The man was standing on the running board of a slowly moving motorcar," and was struggling with the driver. A woman was seated next to the driver, who stopped tho car as approached. The man on the running board, whom witness later identified as John Weston, explained that the woman was his wife, Whom ho was attempting to persuade to go home with him, and whom he had warned against being in the company of Murray McWilliams, the driver of the car. Weston further complained that McWilliams assaulted him when he sprang on to tho running hoard. Witness said he advised McWilliams to allow Weston and his wife to go homo together. McWilliams agreed, but followed the Westons to their house, where the three again began to quarrel violently. Witness heard the father of Grace Weston say to McWilliams: "You have been coining hero for six months now, and have caused enough troublo. Go home." Mrs. Weston mado it plain that she did not want McW illiams to leave her. Weston then dragged his wife into a front room. In response to a call for help from the dead woman's mother, witness said ho burst open tho door of tho room and saw Weston standing beside tho body of his wife, who had a deep gash in her throat. There wjis a blood-stained razor besido her. He had heard Mrs. Weston say that she loved McWilliams and would go away with him.