ATTEMPTED MURDER

Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19203, 13 March 1934, Page 9

ATTEMPTED MURDER

HUSBAND AND WIFE IN DOCK. REMARKABLE ALLEGATIONS (From a Correspondent.) BRISBANE, February 23. Allegations of a remarkable nature were made at the Police Court to-day against Margaret Emily Bovey and George Henry Bovey, husband and wife, who were charged with having on January 20 at Bulimba attempted to kill George Smith. Detective-Sergeant Bookless said it was alleged that the woman had become tired of the man with whom she was living and plotted with tier husband to kill him. When Hie husband left the house to commit murder, she Inld him to get tier gun and she would do it herself. The detective said that the woman Inld him that she had jumped out of lied in a fright, pulled Hie gun from under the mattress, pointed it at George Smith, and pulled the trigger.

Detective Bookless said that Mrs Bovey had staled that Smith had been a rotter, and that she was gelling fed up witti his bullying and threatening her. The witness said that Mrs Bovey repeated, "lie lias been living on me for the j iust year. I asked my husband to do away with him. but be ! hadn't the pluck. I asked him to gel j me a gun. and tie brought Hie gun to |my house. lie pul a bulb lln it and | showed me how to use it. I had been ! dozing and jumped up in a sort of | irighl. | pointed the gun towards j Smith and shot him." The witness | stated that Mrs Bovey then made a statement in which she said that she and Smith had been living for a year as man and wife. Witness staled that' Bovey said llial his wife's siale- ; nienl was true, and added. "I tried to do it with an axe. hut failed.'' J The ease is part heard.