CHARGE OF WIFE MURDER
THE ACCUSED'S EXPLANATION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Wednesday. During the Police Court trial of Albert Cash lor the murder of his wife at Helensville, Mr. Fosbroke, the coroner, said that the.day after the tragedy Cash told him that on December 22 he heard Alfred Wood, a railway guard, come out of his wife's room. After that he neither ate nor slept. On Christmas afternoon he searched his wife's box lor liquor, which he feared she had taken to. and then found a letter from Wood, dated from an Auckland hotel, in which he said, "T am staying in the room we staved in.'' He charged his wife with this on her return. She said, "Well, if vou don't like it you can go." Then lie became mad, and remembering he had a razor in his pocket killed her. Wood denied any impropriety, but admitted that he' had met Mrs. Cash without her husband in Auckland five or six times.
('ojisiablo Drisi'oll s tat oil that Cash informed him lto had bought a revolver intending to shoot his wife, Mrs. Morris, his wife's sister, and Wood himself, but Mrs. Cash took the revolver away and gave it to Wood.
Cash was committed for trial; bail was refused.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 12 January 1911, Page 5
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