MURDER CHARGE
MRS BRAUMAN’S DEATH
*By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, Sept. 10
Evidence as to the manner in which accused had followed his wife while she resided in Dunedin, and he ,v lie had threatened her oil numerms occasions, was given by several witnesses.
Asliburn Holland, company mnnri?. or, living where the deceased was working, .said that he heard shots fired and then heard screaming. He went to the door, and he met Olive Brauman in a distressed state. Witness took her inside and rang the nolice. Then he went to the scene of the tragedy, and he saw the accused bleeding from a wound in the head. Witness picked up . a revolver near here the deceased was sitting. Accused was committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court at Dunedin. The formal verdict at the inquest was that Anna-bcllc Dorothy Dean Brauman died at St. Clair on August 7, 1929, from shock, following a comminuted fracture of the base of the skull anil laceration of the brain, caused by a bullet from a revolver, wilfully discharged at her by William Hen rv Brauman, at St. Clair, on August 7th.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1929, Page 5
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