VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER
LONDON, March 24. At the inquest on George Cooper, whose body was found under the floor of his house at Brislington, a suburb of Bristol, a verdict of wilful murder against George William Cooper was returned. A rider was added' that accused had been subjected to great provocation. (According to a statement made by George William Cooper, who is the son of the deceased, the cause of the quarrel was the father’s insistence on the right to bring other women to the house and threats of what he would do to the mother when she returned home. The son alleged that when playing the piano after a quarrel he saw through a mirror his father approaching with a hatchet in his hand. A struggle ensued, in which the father was killed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18975, 28 March 1924, Page 5
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135VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18975, 28 March 1924, Page 5
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