SHOT IN THE HEAD
SEQUEL TO FAMILY ALTERCATION.
HUSBAND CHARGED AVITH INTENT To MURDER WIFE.
(Received Oct. 25, 11.5 p.m.)
SYDNEY, Oct. 23
Following on an altercation in his home at Paddington, Ethel Leighton, wife of Frank Leighton, a well-known city merchant, was severely wounded in tlie head with- a shotgun and admitted to hospital in a critical condition. After the shot was heard, Airs Leighton’s little daughter ran down tho lane calling for "'“Help!” A neighbour rushed into the Leighton’s house and found Mrs Leighton on the floor in a pool of blood. The police were informed and on arrival found Leighton upstairs in a chair smoking a pipe, and blood running from a superficial wound on the head, alleged to ho self-inflicted. The police state the shooting is the outcome of a long-standing domestic unhappiness.
Mrs Leighton informed tho police she was sitting at a table writing when she felt a blow on the back of the bead and fell unconscious. Leighton has been charged with shooting with intent to murder.— ILF. A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9846, 27 October 1924, Page 5
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