SHELL HARBOUR TRAGEDY
KATE SIELY ARRESTED. CHARGE OF MURDER.' Presa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 6. Kate Siely has been arrested at' Shell Harbour on a charge of muraering her father. At the inquest Mrs Siely said that the deceased drank heavily, and systematically ill-treated her. On Saturday night he was m violent that her daughter obtained police protection. On Sunday morning, after more drinking, he struck her, and forced her daughter to give him money. He got a knife-and gun, and threatened to murder the whole family. Kate was struggling to get the gun when it exploded and shot her father in the head.
Aiiother witness who visited the house shortly after the tragedy said that Mrs Siely had told him that Kate shot her father and that Kate added : "Father was going to kill mother, and I did it to save lier. ! '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15706, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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