SETON SHOOTING TRAGEDY
■MES.-'EIITHERFpBD'S jjSTT'EM . London, January 29. At" the hearing of the murder- charge " anainsfc Lieutenant-Colonel liulherford it " Vwas' stated : that- Jlrs.' Rutherford -wrote to her husband in July, 1918," saying "h'aVe you ever known mo to .refuse forgiveness? Only come back to uie. My love 'for you 19 the most vital part of my life." In four later letters she complained that her husband was'.'pr.ilty of frerjiient. iil-usnge, an awful te.'njwr; and '.'of deception and unfaithfulaess, adding. "I have teen thrOiigh hell. Other, men. 'have'never been more than' an episode in my. life. ' You are life ivself.'*- Sir A. Bodkin commented that the "letters were'of a .faithful character. This correspondence,' in conjunction with Seton's . .'"visits, might; have given Rnihsrt'ord a suspicion that his Wife had bien outaithful,.resulting in a fixed intention to kill a defenceless man.—Aus.-N.Z. I able Assn.'
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 109, 1 February 1919, Page 7
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141SETON SHOOTING TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 109, 1 February 1919, Page 7
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