A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY
MURDER OF YOUNG WIFE.
HUSBAND PRONOUNCED INSANE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
BRISBANE, February 19. (Received Feb. 19, at 9.55 p.m.) Hopgood has been found "Not guilty" of the murder of his wife on the ground ol insanity, and has been ordered to be de-tained-'during the Governor's pleasure.
A tragedy occurred at Maync, near Brisbane, on tfic morning of Sunday, January 18. According to the particulars supplied by the police, Henrv Ferns Hopgood, about 30 years of age, caflcd at the Valley police Sfcition at 3 a.m. on the Monday, and stated that his wife had tried to poison him, and that he had killed her in a timber yard below the Booroodabai Bowling Green. The police accompanied him to the spot, and found the body of Bridget Hongcod (about 21) lying on the ground in the timber yard in Abbotsford road, between Bowen Hills and Maynn station. There were two wounds on tho left side of the forehead, believed to have bcoji inflicted with a piece of wood A doctor was summoned, and. after an examination, the body was removed to tho morgue. Hopgood was arrested. The couple wore married about two months, and it is stated that they had no fixed place of abode.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5
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207A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 16003, 20 February 1914, Page 5
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