COMMONWEALTH CABLES.
, — os*m* -'■■ SYDNEY TRAGEDY RECALLED. CONSTABLE GETS SEVEN YEARS £UmTW Prkm -AWOOIATTON.] (Received 8.30 a.m.) Sydney, March 23. Constable Fisher was found guilty of manslaughter of his sister-in-law, Jessie Nealon, and was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. (On the night of January 10 a tra occurred in Castlereagh Street. when a prohationary constable named John Fisner shot his sister-in-law, Jessie Nealon, dead, and badly wounded his wife. The Fishers were staying with Nealon, and in a statement made bv Fisher after his arrest he said that he wished to leave the Nealons. His wife refused to.do so, and in a fit of temper he, lost control of himself, and' after some bickering, drew his revolver and did the shooting. The wife was wotinded in the breast and shoulder). *
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 92, 24 March 1916, Page 6
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130COMMONWEALTH CABLES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 92, 24 March 1916, Page 6
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