MURDERED IN BED
STORY OF INTRIGUE AND DECEPTION. William Rider, aged 40, a chimneysweep, of Rugby, wae sentenced to death at Warwick Assizes for the murder of Rosilla Patience . Borton, aged 24, a married woman, at Harbury. Mrs Borton’s husband died during the war, in 1918, said Mr O’Sullivan for tlfe prosecution, and she went through a form of marriage with Rider, under the false impression that he was a widower. It was not a happy home. In 1921 Rider began to pay attentions to Harriet Freeman, aged 16, sister of Mrs Borton, and in July last year it was found that Harriet Freeman was in a certain condition. « On the night of September 6th, Mrs Borton slept at her mother’s house at Harbury, and the next morning Rider got into the house through a window and shot Mrs Borton with a gun as she lay in bed with her mother. ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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151MURDERED IN BED New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11423, 20 January 1923, Page 13
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