WIDOW SUCCEEDS
ALLEGATION OF MURDER
DAMAGES AWARDED
(Received December 7, 1.15 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, December 6. Mrs. Herman and her baby son were each awarded £500.
The Cape Town correspondent of "The Times" reported that in the most remarkable civil action in South Africa Mrs. Fanny Herman sued James William Hodgson for £3000 damages, alleging the murder of her husband, manager Of a pawnshop. Hodgson was acquitted on a charge of murder, and the widow took civil action on the allegation of unlawful killing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 137, 7 December 1938, Page 13
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