LEVIN TRAGEDY
TO BE TRIED FOR MURDER SLOMAN’S LETTER READ AT INQUEST. Per Press Association. PALMERSTON NORTH, Nov. 19. The circumstances of the tragedy at Levin on the morning of November sth, when it was discovered that an attempt had been made to wipe out the whole family, were inquired into at the Magistrate’s Court this morning when inquests were held concurrently on Margaret Abigail Sloman, wife of William George Sloman, and Rita Sloman, their daughter. Later two charges of muruer Were preferred against Sloman. After hearing the evidence and the reading of the letters left by Sloman, stating tha he had sent his family to Heaven, as his brain seemed to have gone and he could not leave them behind, the coroner returned in both instances a_ verdict of death resulting from injuries inflicted by Sloman, who was committed for trial on a charge of murdering his wife and daughter.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 4
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151LEVIN TRAGEDY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 4
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