CHARGE OF MURDER.
(Per 1 res.= . Association ) WELLINGTON, last night. . At : the Magistrate's Court: >0-day;j Ernest Devoin. was committed >for .triajl on '-'a chai-ge of murder as a sequel 1 6 the death of Louisa White, who died . as the -result of a.Ayound from a Te-. volver allegedly fired by Devoin on the :night of March 2?th in Nairn Street;Reserve. Devoin and Whit© were to j have been married in a few days, anflj went for a walk in tho l'eserve., While, they were there shots, wer© :hea"rd, and. j the woman was found badly wounded •in the slpine. Devoin. wds also injured; in the temple, having attempted suit>evoin Svas previously charged with; attembtbtl but the \vomsii was so critically ill then that tht> trial wafe adjoined 'in view of- th©.-'pOsdibilityOcrt the mo#© charge, _!'.'' The evidence disclosed that Devoifi already had a wife, -liVihg.__ /
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14049, 20 July 1916, Page 8
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144CHARGE OF MURDER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14049, 20 July 1916, Page 8
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