SHOCKING CASE OF WIFE MURDER. KILLED'WITH A FLAT-IRON.

Otago Witness, Issue 1957, 23 May 1889, Page 14

SHOCKING CASE OF WIFE MURDER. KILLED'WITH A FLAT-IRON.

(Peom Ovb Own Oosbbspokdbnt;) ! f '■ ■ ' ■ -' ; ■'•' •; '•';■- : MBLBOTJiNBi'-May 14. ■' 'The mnrde'r of'Kis' \rfiFe" by 'the f ! organist' Flaisted in a fit of itisknity hasseht a'thriil of 7 hoirror "and pity 1 through the cdmuiunity. Ijhey -ii^dlunch- together with, some; of their .children, in the middle of the aay, when Plaisted seemed quite; sane,) and. WelU -buti the! children jhad scarcely left for school whenithe- frenzy seized him* ,He : sftruck ,his wife .down; with' a [common flat T iron,rand 7 afterwards; ;<s,ut, her ihrojitrwith a raeo^', Then, he lQokednUßthe hpuse and set off on a* wild! 'in a distant suburb), returning hpme about i.lo.clook. 'a^ nlktitlw^ea the .police secured hini! [The w!f e's~ bfbther, who was in town attending; the funeral of another brotlier, w&s the first 'to go. to the house after thed^ed'and to find' the 1 body of hia eteter. '''Plaisted'was' very^wellknoWn'iri' and about Melbourne. He was a kind 'of mbiickl genius, arid left iniercafitile- pursuits fco follow , organ playingv Years ago when this orgahiwas; procured for the town hall, there .wak a majority. ,in; the , oounoil in. favour of j his appointment as city organist, but there seemed, to be t^en. a whisper, of his,insapity 4 andjt^e appointin'ent was' left in abeyance for a year or two, wheii Mr' Left received it.' .Plaisted, Considered himself 'slighted, and this decidedly [had some effect on his mentel balance. ; Al^ogethe^ he had 'been'' confined Iti '&' lunatic' asylum noless th'an'fiye times] but his wife always succeeded in prevailing' on< the doctors to let him out in> her 1 charge. Only once before^ several 'years i ago, did he show symptoms of being inclined to take life ; but the fact serves to prove: that once a' patient discovers homicidal tendencies .he should even , afterwards be kept under surveillance, , <In his cane (or apparently sane) intervals Mr Flaisted, could always obtain;^ employment as a church, organist, and he had filled, that position in sbme , of the oest city and suburban churches. ' He is. now r fully sensible, and' has told the police 1 'exactly how he' Committed' the deed. When he 'Wai Arrested /he declared that he had sent his wife "to be queen of heaven." ' i : ... .r. . !-_. . . i 1.1.i 1 . 1. ■■