AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AVIFE SHOOTS HUSBAND. SYDNEY, Oct. 14. A man named Norman Hoey, a shearing contractor, was shot dead while sitting in a motor car, in a street in Inverell tin the north of New South AA’ales). The wife of Hoey was later charged with murdering him. In a statement to the police, Airs Hoey said that she had been living apart from her husband for the past three years, and, as she did not receive justice in the Court, when she sued her husband, for allegedly trying to run her down in a motor car recently, she had shot him to protect herself. THE THREE ACCUSED. SYDNEY, Oet. 14. The three brothers. Herbert Higgs. A\ 7 illiams Higgs and Bruce Higgs, whi have been charged with the murder of the man Leslie, were to-day remanded for a. week without bail. The prisoners’ cotmsel said that they were members of a family possesed of comfortable means and were all of unimpeachable character, and they could give a good account of their actions on the day of the tragedv. There was no motive for their committing such a crime as to murder Leslie. The Magistrate, however, refused an application for bail, on the advice of the police.