CHARGE OF MURDER.
THE ALLANTON CASE,
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedin, last night. At the Supreme Court, the hearing of the charge, of murder against Hugh Sweeney in connection with the death of Mrs Annie Sinnott at Alianton on, the 20th March last, was commenced. The house in which deceased lived was destroyed by five, and the remains of deceased on being taken out were found to have embedded in the heart the prong of a steel fork. Sweeney, who had been living?with the woman for a time, but who had loft the houso for somo time before, though he visited Sinnott, was alleged to have been seen by some witnesses trying to get into the house some time before the fire was discovered. Fifteen of nineteen witnesses were- examined to-day. The medical witnesses wore cross-examined as to whether the prong of the fork might not have become embedded when the body rolled over as it was being taken out of the fire. The case will probably conclude to-morrow.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 434, 5 June 1902, Page 2
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