99 YEARS FOR SHOOTING A WIFE.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 July 1919, Page 7

99 YEARS FOR SHOOTING A WIFE.

Jeff Hanson, on his twentieth birth-V clay, which was also the first anniversary of his marriage, was sentenced to ‘99 years’ imprisonment for the cold-blooded murder of his 17~yea.-:—old bride at Galveston, He confessed that he shot his pretty young wife, who was the daughter of “E 1 neighburing farnrc-r,’ and the belle 'of the district, just. after she had finished a dance with her uncle. He said he had intended also to kill himself, because he could notlnear to see other people dancing with his wife. When the (lance was finished she and her uncle went to the punch-bowl near the window where Hanson Was standing. Hanson said he fired the shot through the window flint killed his wife.