SKULL IN COURT.
MURDER IN BRISTOL SUBURB. MOTHER AND SON CHARGED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 30, 7j20 p.m. London, May 30. The trial of George Cooper on a charge of murdering his father, and him mother, who is charged a* an accessory, after the fact, opened at th* Well* Assize*. There way a grim scene when Dr. Spikbury produced the actual skull of the dead man and pointed out injuries alleged to have been caused by a hard swung hatchet. Mrs. Cooper, in the dock, moaned aiul put her handkerchief to her eyes. The son gazed steadily a# the father’a skull was passed from hand to hand by th* jury. The bodv of George Cooper, aenr., a pattern-maker, wa* found in September in his house at Brislington, a suburb of Bristol, where it had been buried beneath the floor. The son, after his arrest, stated that he had intervened when his father was attacking hi* mother with an axe and that in th* struggle the elder man was killed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1924, Page 5
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