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NZ Truth, Issue 93, 30 March 1907, Page 8

Reform is needed mostly m the camp of the reformer. A woman m the Argentine Republic has twenty-three children, and she is only thirty-eight years of age. Stock-raising there ought to prosper. The trial of Evelyn Bradford at the Sydney Central Criminal Court on a charge of murdering her husband revealed a squalid, sordid story of the seamy side of life. She said that when things were bad at Naremburn, where they lived, her husband said she would have to go back to the old life (she had been a demi-mondaiue before marriage), as sho could by that means dkirn more m a day than he could m a week. .So they went back to the old life m Surry Hills, and it was during a row with her bludging husband that her Spanish blood prompted her to stab him. The lawyer who defended the woman elicited sufficient evidence to convince the jury that the woman was a victim of repeated acts of cruelty, and had probably used the knife m a moment of exasperation induced by his conduct. Thoy accordingly returned a verdict of manslaughter, with a strong recommendation for mercy on account of tho extreme provocation she had received from her. husband bludgei*. Acting Judge Fitzhardinge remanded her for svmtence*