ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7661, 18 October 1893, Page 2

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE.

SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD.

■ Brisbane. October 17. A woman known as Emily Emmerson, but whose real name was Emily Woodward, was shot by. her husband, George Henry Woodward, of Samson's Vale, near Brisbane, at the Commercial Hotel, Roma, where the former was staying pending taking a situation as a'domestic on a station. Woodward arrived at Roma by the train from Brisbane, and had breakfast at the hotel, .where he met his wife. ! After 'an altercation he shot her with a revolver while she was washing her face preparatory to seeking a-constable to give him in charge. A messenger was sent for medical aid, and on the arrival of Dr L'Estrange he took the revolver from Woodward and handed him over to the police. The unfortunate woman was found lying on the floor of the kitchen, the bullet, haying, nassed. through the base of the skulllromrighFto left, the wound bleeding profusely. An hour after she recovered consciousness, when her dying depositions wore taken. She j is. not (expected, to recover) as her jaw is broken and'the tiase of her skull probably [fractured. Woodwai'd'ajdmits that he shot her, and came up for that purpose. He is about 60 years of age,, while she is ! about 30 or 36. Prom whafc;he says it appears that jealousy was the motive of the crime. She holds a protection order signed by the police magistrate of South Brisbane, and alleges persecution on his part.'}: .'•■/. {',<') [l