IS WILSON MAD?

NZ Truth, Issue 97, 27 April 1907, Page 6

IS WILSON MAD?

It may be lunacy or jealousy, or both, that is at the bottom of Hans Wilson's strange murderous freak at Christchurch 'totber night: The man seems a bit light-headed, but that doesn't matter for the present, ai*d he is under medical observation. Wilson and his 'wife, Annabella, went to the Exhibition on the hilarious last night, and everything seemed to be good between the pair, and they retired to their bedroom about one o'clock m the morning, and even the wife suspected no thin?., and as she was dispossessing; herself of her garments her mad husband took a revolver from underneath the led, presented it at her head, and let drive. But she fortunately missed the pellet that m all probability would have gent her te Kingdom Gome, by,

duckin.a; under the bed. Then she rushed for the door. It was then that Wilson thought of suicide, and had a cut at his own head, but the weapon missed fire. Mrs. Wilson boldly turned and struggled with her husband for the possession of the weapon, and she obtained mastery. It seems that the pair kept their bedroom door locked, and the son, who slept m the room adjoining," had to burst it open m order to go to his mother's assistance when he heard the filing. The woman then got away with the revolver, and on the arrival of Sergeant Burrows and Constable Waugh, he was handcuffed and taken to the jus;. But Wilson's antics were so peculiar that he was taken to the hospital, and when the case was called on this week it was intimated that he would be examined for lunacy, and i ! f it was shown that he wasn't a lunatic . then he would have to stand Ms trial. Wilson's act seems inexplicable to those who are acquainted with him.