HELENSVILLE MURDER TRIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 940, 12 January 1911, Page 3

HELENSVILLE MURDER TRIAL.

AUCKLAND, January 11. During the Police Court trial of Albert Cash, for the murder of his wife at Heleusvilie, Mr Fosbroke, the coroner, said the day alter the tragedy Cash told him that on December 22nd he heard Alfred Wood, a railway guard, come out of his wife’s room, and after that he neither ate nor slept. On Christmas afternoon he searched his wife’s box for liquor, which he feared she had taken to. He found a letter from Wood, dated from an Auckland hotel, in which he said: “I am staying in the room we stayed in.” He charged his wife with this on her return. She said, ‘‘ Well, if you don’t like it, you can go.” He then became mad, and, remembering he had hidden a razor in his pocket, he killed her. Wood denied any impropriety, but admitted he had met Mrs Cash without her husband in Auckland five or six times. Constable Driscoll stated Cash informed him he had bought a revolver with the intention of shooting his wife, Mrs Morris, his wife’s sister, Wood and himself, but Mrs Cash took the revolver away and gave it to Wood. Cash was committed for trial, ball being refused.