SYDNEY MERCHANT.
CHARGED WITH SHOOTING WIFE,
SYDNEY”, Oct. 26,
Following on an altercation in a home at Paddington, Ethel Leighton, wife of Frank Leighton, a well-known city merchant, was severely wounded in the head by a shotgun, and was admitted ■ to hospital in a critical (Condition, « After the shot , was, heard Mrs. Leighton’s little daughter ran down the Jane calling 1 for help. A neighbour rushed into Leighton ’s house and found Mrs. Leighton on the floor in a of blood. The ploice were informed and on arrival they found Leighton upstairs in a chair smoking a pipe. Blood was running from a superficial wound in his dread, alleged to Do self-inflicted. The police state that the shooting is the outcome of long-standing domestic unhappiness. . Mrs. Leighton informed the, police that she was sitting at-the table writing when she felt a blow on the back of'the head and fell unconscious.
Leighton has been charged with shooting with intent to murder. .
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 4, 28 October 1924, Page 3
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