HUSBAND WOUNDED
-Prcas ABBOciation.)
Wife Horrified When Rifle Went Off
(By TelegrapE-
ASHBURTON, Last Night. ' A sequel to tlie incidcnt on Soptember 13 when Albert William Murdoch was wonnded in the nock by a rifle bullet, was heard in the Magistrate's Court when his wife, Ellen Anne Murdoch, was cbarged, firstly with committing assault with intend to do grievous bodily harm, and secondlj^, with presenting a firearm without sufficient lawful purpose. Accused pleaded guilty to the second charge, the police withdrawing the first. The police said that, following a quarrel, accused seized a rifle which had been left loaded. Counsel said Mrs. Murdoch was highly-strung and seized the rifle hardly knowing what she was doing. She had uo intent to injure her husband and was horrifled when tho riflo exploded. The Magistrato ordered hor to come up for sentence if called upoa .within |wg
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 9
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144HUSBAND WOUNDED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 9
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