THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY.

Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 772, 5 October 1900, Page 3

THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY.

ACCUSED COMMITTED FOB

TRIAL. (BY TELEGBAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION). Dunedin, This Day. At the Police Court Sarah Fogo was charged with tke murder of her husband.

Mr Fraser, Crown Prosecutor, in opening the case, said tho deceased was very quarrelsome while in drink and was occasionally violent. Tho deceased had been hit on the head with a walking stick, and the blow divided tho skull right down to the bone. Mrs Fogo admitted having struck the blow, and it must have been struck from behind in the attack. Perhaps one of the most damning features of the case was this, that the accused admitted she went into the kitchen where the knife, ■with which it was alleged the murder was committed, was kept, and returning 'upstairs murdered her husband. That conflicted with the theory that she committed murder in self-defence. Mr Fraser contended in the first place that there could not have been any quarrel or struggle. She must have struck deceased on the head, producing total or partial insensibility. Counsel thought the Court would come to the conclusion that tho crime had beeu premeditated, deliberately done and tho excution of it relentlessly carried out. The evidence generally supported the statement of Mr Fraser, and the accused was committed for trial.