WIFE TALKED TOO MUCH
KILLED BY HUSBAND JOHAXNESBURG, May 27. His wife talked too much. He warned her when they married. He warned her on his jiinety-lifth birthday. But it made no difference. He could stand it no longer; so lie killed her. His name was Frederick Malapon, a black man, and the judge found him guilty of manslaughter yesterday. “I don’t know what to do with you,” said the judge. “You’re too old to be whipped. You have led an otherwise blameless life.” “Tiie baas (master) must do as he thinks,” replied Frederick. “I hit the woman because she, talked, too much. ’ ’' Frederick had already been seven months in gaol waiting trial, so the judge bound him. over.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 10
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