SHELL HARBOUR TRAGEDY.
$ THE DAUGHTER ACQUITTED. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Sydney, March 10. At the inquest on Walter Seily, who was shot in a struggle with his daughter at Shell Harbour, on the south coast, a verdict of accidental death was returned. Kate Seily, aged 16, daughter of deceased, who was charged with murdering lier father, in a lengthy statement, which was largely a repetition of her mother's evidence, said her father had a loaded gun in his hand, and threatened to "do for the lot of them." She replied: "Not while I'm here." He then threatened to blow her, brains out, and she tried to fake the gun from him. One of his hands was near the trigger, and in the struggle tho gun exploded. She had no idea it would go off and kill her father.
Counsel for the defence declared that it was atrocious that a mere child should be arraigned on a charge of wilful murder in the face of the circumstances of the case. Even though,in an agony of despair she shot her father to save her mother, he would look at her not as a murderess, but a heroine.
There was an extraordinary scene when the verdict was announced, the crowd cheering and cheering "again when tho girl was discharged.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1695, 11 March 1913, Page 5
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215SHELL HARBOUR TRAGEDY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1695, 11 March 1913, Page 5
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