The Shooting Case.
MRS LOCHER ON TRIAL. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, June 9. In the charge of attempted murder against Mrs Locher, tbe facts were not disputed and Sic R. Stoat, in opening for the defence, said he would call medical evidence to show accused was highly of a neurotic and excitable temperament and her mind had become unhinged by financial troubles, in which her husband and herself had been involved. Her father had been a very excitable.man and her uncle had been cob< fined in an asylum, which showed the disposition to insanity to be hereditary. She had conceived the idea that she was being prosecuted by Norbury, concerning whom she had certain delusions. So far her husband was the only -witness for the defence, and his evidence was chiefly devoted to an explanation of bis financial transactions.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 287, 10 June 1896, Page 2
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