WIFE MURDER.
JEALOUSY THE CAUSE* Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 11. During the Police Court trial of Al-' bert Cash for the murder of lus -wife, at Helensville, Mr Fosbroolce, the Coroner, said that tlio day after the tragedy Cash told him that on December 22nd he heard' Alfred Wood,'a railway guard, come out of his wife's room. After that ho never ate nor slopt.\ On Christmas afternoon he seardhed his wife's box for liquor, which ho feared she had taken: to. Ho then found a letter from Wood dated from an Auckland hotel in which ho said: "I am staying in 'the room wo stayed in." Ho charged his Wife with this on her return and she said: "Weill, if you don't like it you can go." He then became mad and remembering he hod a razor in liis pocket, killed her. Wood denied impropriety, but admitted that ho had met Mrs Cosh without her husband in Auckland fire or sis times. . • < Driscoll stated that. Cash informed him that Jio had bought a revolver intending to shoot his wife, Mrs Morris, his wife's sister, Wood and himself, but Mrs Cash, took the revolver away and gave it, to Wood. Cash was committed for-trial. Bdil Was refused.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14340, 12 January 1911, Page 5
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