A WOMAN’S DEATH
MAN ACQUITTED ON MURDER CHARGE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright SYDNEY, October 22. Henry Pepper was acquitted on a charge of murdering Ethel Sloan, with whom he bad been living for eight days prior to the woman’s death from strychnine. Witnesses for the defence testified that the woman had- been questioned and had replied that she had taken strychnine in mistake tor salts. She had also been heard to declare her intention of committing suicide.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8559, 23 October 1913, Page 8
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77A WOMAN’S DEATH New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8559, 23 October 1913, Page 8
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