Second Edition AN OLD MAN'S ACQUITTAL.
HE WANTED A SON-IN-LAW. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] ,[United Press assoc -a sum. ) (Received 9.20 a.m.) Melbourne, September 18.
Parser was acquitted on the charge of attempting to murder McKenzie. Parker inade a statement that he was driven to the action because he wanted McKenzie to give the shelter of his name to his daughter’s honour. He declared: “I covered McKenzie with the revolver, but at the last moment the Almighty altered ray mind and I deflected the pistol, and I fired above his head.”
A Melbourne cable of September 8 says that Parker (an old and respectably connected man) armed with a revolver, dogged George McKenzie through the city with the object of compelling him to marry his daughter. McKenzie escaped by jumping down a flight of stairs. Parker fired and niissed. .ft
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 18 September 1913, Page 6
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