Thought Wife’s Life Had Been Spoiled
OLDFIELD’S STATEMENT TIMARU MURDER INQUIRY Press Association TIMARU, Today. - “I realise now what I have done. I was worrying over things. I thought I had spoiled the poor girl’s life. I can’t say anything.” This statement of Jack Oldfield, the Seadown farmer who .has been arrested on a charge of having murdered his wife, Christina Oldfield, was produced in evidence at an inquest into the circumstances touching the death of the woman, which was held in the Timaru Courthouse today. The inquiry was conducted by a coroner and a jury of six, and a verdict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence that the cause of death was a fracture of the skull and laceration of the brain, as a result of being struck on the forehead by a sharp instrument. Oldfield was present during the inquiry and sat throughout the proceedings with bowed head. He evinced no interest in the evidence of the various witnesses.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 870, 14 January 1930, Page 1
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