JEALOUS HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE
.LONDON - Retuming to his house for a reonciliation with his wife after -a - uarrel, a man saw a messenger-boy !eliyering flowers at the front door, •/ert in and stahbed her to death. He was William James McCarthy, -2, who, at Staffordshire Assizes, was -.cquitted of murder, biut found guilty •f manslaughter. It was stated that the messenger vhom McCarthy ,,saw was delivering he flowers to the woman living next loor. • As she was out, he had asked Mclarthy's wife 'to mind; them until her eturn. McCarthy mistakenly thought his 'ife had an admirer. -The couple's marriage followed a mg .pen-friend acquaintance. 'Sentencing McCarthy to 10 years' enal servitude, Mr. Justice Hilbery aid: "Any case nearer to .murder ban this would be impossible to conaive."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 2
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128JEALOUS HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 2
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