ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 307, 5 February 1910, Page 5

ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE

«WIFE'S IfiXOKAXT CUSSEDXESS." ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR ITJAL By Telegraph—rrcss Association. Auckland. Last Xight. At the Police Court to-day ('ieorgc Oliver was committed for trial at the Supreme Court charged with having 'v:.temoted to murder his wife at lanit and to commit suicide, lie pleaded ; not guilty. A letter, found in accused's pocKete, was handed in as evide>;"e. :t stated: "T am on the eve of ooniuflting one of the worst crimes ever committed in this district and T hav a load that is heavier than T can hear. I have been shut out of the comforts i of niv family hy the ignorant cuss-;!- | ness of mv wife, and I must have my , revenge. T have trouble nn everv hand, so I j intend to do away villi myself and ' my wife. She Has been the means _oh my living an unnatural, miserable life, and in order for her not to have tin j benefits of the. little T have, T have de- ( cided on this course. Th-.-ve w sure Jo | he someone that will blame me. but, j before being too rough, tvv lo 1 lii 'il< j how you could put up with what Tlm-e j liad to. in a lonely home bv myself cold, desolate, miserable, and none to epeak to. Tt has preyed on my mi'id and got tlie best of me." The evidence of accused's wife m the effect that he had been drinkii»T. and. in consequence she had been living; anart, from him. but some two honys before he attempted to shoot her. ~-i' Baa promised to forgive him nut! care for him if he gave up drink.