WOMAN FATALLY SHOT
MANSLAUGHTER VERDICT IN SYDNEY SEVEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT SYDNEY, Tuesday. At the Sydney Criminal Court today Frederick Laurence, aged 62, painter, was charged with the murder of Miriam Merriman at North Sydney on May 23, 1925. He was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. Accused, who was adjudged unfit to j plead at the original trial, has been j under observation ever since. The defence was that the rifle -with which the . woman was killed was \ accidentally discharged. Miriam Merriman was found shot through the head, apparently with a pea-rifle, in a house at Middle Harbour. North Sydney. The police arrested Frederick Laurence, who had lived with the woman for 20 years and claimed to be her husband. On June 2$ Laurence was tried for murder, declared temporarily insane and ordered to be confined in a mental hospital for observation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 9
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146WOMAN FATALLY SHOT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 9
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