A Southern Sensation.
Quite a sensation was caused in Christchurch on Saturday night when it became known that a well-known confidential clerk in the office of a legal gentleman now in England had been arrested on a very serious charge. The man, with his wife, was just leaving the football ground at Lancaster Park when he was arrested. He was put in a cab and his wife insisted upon accompanying him to the lockup. The charge is that he did attempt to procure a medical practitioner to commit the crime of murder. The person who it is said he wished to have murdered is his wife. Quite a number of influential people visited the police station both on Saturday night and Sunday morning to endeavour to bail the accused out, out the charge was considered so serious that the authorities declined to release him. The accused, Harry V. Styche was charged at the Magistrate's Court on Monday with attempting to procure Geoffrey Sherbourne Claytor, medical practioneer to murder one Elizabeth Styche. Accused was remanded till Thursday and allowed bail, himself in £500 and two sureties of £500 each. Bail was forthcoming.
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Manawatu Herald, 7 August 1900, Page 2
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191A Southern Sensation. Manawatu Herald, 7 August 1900, Page 2
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