The Ormondvill Tragedy
' (PKB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) JNapihb, This Day. A. H. Edwards, charged with murder* ing his wife and four children at Ormondville, was put on his trial. On the question of guilt j or not guilty being asked, prisoner remained silent about a minute. The question was again put and the prisoner replied, " Guilty." Then there was a death-like silence, which was broken by the prisoner adding, " Guilty, but I was not in my right mind." This was taken as a plea of not guilty. The trial will last all day.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 77, 10 June 1884, Page 2
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93The Ormondvill Tragedy Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 77, 10 June 1884, Page 2
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