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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1921, Page 1

cam K«l» wllO MI'UDKK TO MI'SIO. XICW VOI!K. .Inly -’!>• soiisatiimal Kaher murder t rial tn mi mi] yesterday. wlu'ii Till-. „j,|ow of :i Cleveland publisher counsel. after n vidimus fioht. secured tlio exclusion «>f fron ' the jury which tried tier, was found g„j|ty of (In' murder of her husband. Tlic jury reciimmendi'il her to merer mill saved lier I rum electrocution. Will'll tlir , ase eaiue up for trial tile iirisom r’s mlvoeale ol>ieele,| to the melusiiui of women in the J ur > „n the orounds that tliey «on' hearllrss and e,.1.1-I.loo,led' and that tl„. v would not listen to the evidence eiilndy and impartially. U showed that XI rs Kaher. wisliiup; to ret nil of her second husband in order to remarry the first, hired two ruffians to stab ln'r Inislinml as l'<‘ W ' n ><(^' daughter. a ttirl of twenty and her mother, a woman of seventy wlm an' both under indictment are aliened t" have assisted in the crime the daughter iliavinit the piano loudly during t n murder. to drown her steplather s and afterwards, with her t-rand--1 ... 1 1, have scattered the furniture ab 0,1 the house and ransacked drawers. 1,1 produce an appearance of robbery. One or the personalities of the trial was a snii'iloaltic medium. She d05,.,11,0,1 ~,11,0,1 bow she had been in touch with tbc suirit of th» murdered man. who wave her a description of one of I' l murderers and enable the police to arrest him.