DOMESTIC TRAGEDY

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 22

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY

SYDNEY. October 22. Charles Jenkins Avas to-day sentenced to death for shooting his Avifo. The evidence shoAved that the accused, on being discharged from the hospital, discovered that his Avife had deserted him, and, with their children, Avas living Avith another man. When Jenkins suav her she assaulted him. Jenkins borrowed a gun, and, meeting her in the street, shot her dead.

On the night of September 2 a man named Charles Jenkins, an employee at the Orange gasworks, shot his Avifo dead with a double-barrel gun. The couple had had frequent quarrels, and about a fortnight previous his Avifo Avent to live Avitli Mrs Wilson, in Lord street. On October 8, after a Cjuarrel in Poislcy street, the two Avomen returned homo. While Mrs Wilson was picking the key from under a mat at the front door Jenkins, avlio Avas standing close to the fence near by, fired at his wife, the shot striking her on the loft side about the region of the heart. She lived a few minutes, and died without having spoken. Jenkins afterAvards surrendered to the police.