LABOURER FACES MURDER CHARGE
DEATH OF WIFE AT CLAVERLEY REMAND GRANTED UNTIL AUGUST 17 (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, August 4. Months of intensive police investigation into the disappearance of Mrs Harriet Jane Patience, whose body was subsequently found on the beach near the Claverly Public Works Camp, reached a climax in the Magistrate’s Court this morning when her husband, Arthur John Patience, faced a charge of murder.
Patience, of the Rosy Mom Public Works Camp at Kaikoura, was described as a labourer and a native of Australia, aged 48, and he was charged that on or about October 4, 1938, at Claverly he murdered Harriet Jane Patience.
Of dark and stocky appearance, with broad shoulders, Patience stepped into the dock wearing a dark blue-strioed double-breasted suit.
During the brief proceedings, Patience was silent and immediately the charge was read Chief-Detective Dunlop asked for a remand to August 17. Patience was
arrested late yesterday afternoon, said Chief Detective Dunlop, and this would probably be the first adjournment. Mr R. A. Young, who appeared for Patience, consented to the adjournment. He made no application for bail.
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Southland Times, Issue 23888, 5 August 1939, Page 12
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