SHOOTING OF A WOMAN
PAPATOETOE SENSATION
THOMAS CLARK SENTENCED.
FIFTEEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT.
(By Telegraph.—Preaa Association.)
AUOKLAND, Tueeday
Thomas Francis Clark (33), labourer, who was ohargod with the murder of Mrs Bennett at Papatoetoe, but was found guilty of manslaughter, was sentenced to-day by Mr Justice Smith.
His Honour said the Jury must have taken the view that there was a contract of marriage between aocused and Mrs Bennett, also that when he looked into a bedroom and saw her sharing a bed with another man he lost power of oontrol and committed the aot In a fit of passion. However, human life must not be taken In that way.
He regarded the offenoe as
very serious, and the sentence of
the Court would be Imprisonment T with hard labour for fifteen years.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18946, 16 May 1933, Page 5
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