BINGARA TRAGEDY.
(Press Assn. — By Telegraph.— Copy nj;h;.j .:■> , SYDNEY, April 23. Ball has been sentenced to death for murdering his wife at Bingara. (Received April 24, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY; April 24. Ball's defence was that his wife was suffering.-, agony owing to illneßS. He entered the room and, saw her struggling on the floor, . foaming at the , mouth, havipg taken carbolic. He shot her because he pitied 'her in her suffering. -He was 5 convinced that she was practically dead when he shot her. He always loved' his wife. They had' never quarrelled.' He must have been mad to burn the body. .•.-••.••■■' - [The remains of the young womai^ were ', found. , in the bush. ' She had evidently been 'killed by blows on ;^,he head* and an attempt^had tlien beehma'de to destroy the' 'body by fire. 'The couple, 1 who were recent arrivals from. England, had been employed at a Bingara hotel,' and the husband was seeking tq escape' when he was arrested.] , f
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12745, 24 April 1912, Page 5
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162BINGARA TRAGEDY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12745, 24 April 1912, Page 5
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