ABOUT AN EGG.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 7

ABOUT AN EGG.

A FATHER SHOT DEAD. : " SON SENT TO PRISON. By Teleirraph-Prcss Association-Cojyrislil . '(?<*• December 15, 8.50 p.m.) Melbourne, Decembsr 15. David Edwards, aged'2l, has been fouiid guilty of the. manslaughter of ; his . father, Constable Alexander Edwards, whom h$ shot dead at the family home, at Moorfc" bin on November 21. r Xhe jury made a strong recommends tion lor mercy. • , .v •' • v The Judge sentenced' the prisoner to two years'imprisonment. '

A -STBANGE .STOKY.

T.,™ 'be tragic ending ttf ward® wn? 1 y . flU< ! rrels - • Constable Ed- . PoHon \ ? f r eCU f ln ch J r e e of the Ifoorabia r on i about fivc years- aiid sk rfcnTr I s mfe " an d four of. his', sis Children and servant. In reality ho hved by himself, for he was not on good ! yard hrLh f a,^' y - l n the back. tbat°sh n ™V, dd , MrS '- Edffards r equc-stod tiiat she should be given an ess, as shsHer lt£ S m I fowl* nf ?l? V T?5 amending.to the' towls at tho time, told her to eat soma •ftnt »i« r i s when she ' intimated '- that she did not fancy it, he refused to';s allow her an egg. At his: refusal . tKe ; woMs picW m-j,, a nd declared" that she would break, open the lock of the egg store. "If you do," i said :h»r : husband, "I shall, Iniock your brains ' Mrs. Edwards then .walked towards the' place where the eggs wer* kept) but had' gone only about six_ yards wHen-ho stnicfcv u j blow on the side of the head, which--felled_hcr to the ground." About 1 o'clockMrs. Edwards was sitting in the kitchen; - preparing the dinner, when David, the eldest son, entered, * He, saw that she .had''' been crying, and- asked'the; reason. It was explained by the children. ' Without making any remark Jie Went into his 1 ' room, secured a double-barrelled breech-:-loading guri, and. walked out by-the back!, door to within fifteen yards of .where his • father, stood in the', yard. ' The mother' followed, crying, - "Oh, don't." Address- V mg his father, David asked- why his*mother had been knocked - down. "I didnot .knock her down," asserted , the "con- '. stable. "She is making a nonsensical . fu.ss_ out of nothing." "Yon are always ' r . hitting her in her delicate state, and knocking her down," said the son. Then') ;he raised the gun and . fired the charge into his'father's'side. , ' "While the neighbours : were standing ■ round 'the; victim; David Edwards quietly'.' gave up his gun'to a neighbour.'to whom'he remarked, "I suppose I shall have to:, suffer for this, but he. is not going, to.v knock my mother about. 1 He has knock., f etl her about too much already.", : The ' police afterwards found hinrcoqlly eatinj' . his dinner.