MURDER CHARGE FAILS
ACQUITTAL OF WIDOW INVALID HUSBAND'S.FATE (Reed. Sept. 7,2 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 7. At the second trial of Mary Cecilia Thomas who was charged with murdering her husband, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The woman was discharged. Unusual circumstances were associated witli the death last month of William Thomas, aged GO, as the result' of gunshot wounds. Thomas was reported to have been suffering from a tubercular complaint which he believed to be incurable. The man appealed to his doctor, also to his wife, to end his sufTerings. Detectives arrested the wife, Mary Cecilia Thomas, aged 3!), and the mother of three young children. In a statement alleged to have been made to the police, Mrs. Thomas said that, at the request of her invalid husband, who pleaded to be put out of his pain, she shot him. At. the first hearing of the ease on September 2, the jury failed to agree.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 6
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