A COURT SENSATION
MAN MURDERS HIS WIFE.
(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association).
LONDON, January 28. (Received January 28, 11 p.m.). The Paris correspondent of the Daily Express reports that a sensation was caused in a city Court. A policeman, who sued for a divorce, shot his wife dead before the eyes of the Judge. After the wife had described her suffering, the husband admitted his faults. He added: “I have changed. I promise to treat her kindly. I did not know before what it was to be lonely.”
The Judge asked: “Will you give him a chance, Madame?” “No,” replied the woman, “I cannot live with him again.” She turned away and her husband put his hand into his pocket and drew a revolver. There was a flash and the wife fell with a wound in her throat. Before he could be overpowered, the husband fired two bullets into his own head and fell across his wife’s body. She is dead, but the husband is expected to recover.
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Southland Times, Issue 19157, 29 January 1924, Page 7
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171A COURT SENSATION Southland Times, Issue 19157, 29 January 1924, Page 7
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