HELENSVILLE MURDER CHARGE
CASH MAKES A STATEMENT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' Auckland, January 11. During the Police Court_ trial of Albert Cash for the murder of his wife,' at Heiensville, Air. I'osbrooke, the coroner, said, on the day after the tragedy Cash told .him that on December 22 he heard Alfred Wood, a railway guard, come out of his wife's-room. After that he neither ate nor slept. On Christmas afternoon lie searched .his wife's bps for liquor, which he-feared she had taken to. Theil ho found a letter from Wood, dated from an Auckland hotel, in which n9 said: "I am staying in the room we stayed in." He charged his wife withi tliis on her return, and she said: "WelUif you don't like it.you can go. Then Jie became' mad, and, remembering he had a razor in his pocket, killed ner. • Wood denied any impropriety, but admitted he had met Mrs.-Cash m Aucfc laud without her husband five or six Constable Driscoll stated that Cash informed him he had bought a revolver, intending to shoot his wife, Mrs. Morris (his wife's sister), Wood, and himself, but Mrs. Cash took thti revolver away and gave it to Wood. • ....., Cash was committed for trial,-' bail being refused.. ' . ..
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1023, 12 January 1911, Page 4
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205HELENSVILLE MURDER CHARGE Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1023, 12 January 1911, Page 4
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