SHELL BAY TRAGEDY.
ACCUSED ACQUITTED. AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, March 10. At the inquest on Seily, a verdict of accidental death was brought in. Kate Seily, in a lengthy statement, which was largely a repetition of her mother's evidence, said that her father loaded his gun and threatened to do for the lot of them. She replied: "Not while I'm here." He threatened to blow her brains out. She tried to take the gun from him, and it exploded. She had no idea that it would go off and kill her father. Counsel for the defence declared that it would he atrocious for a mere child to be arraigned on a charge of wilful murder. On the face of it, under the circumstances of the case, even if through agony and despair she had shot her father to save her mother, he would l«ok upon her not as a murderess but as a heroine. There was an extraordinary scene when the verdict was announced, the crowd cheering Kate Seily when she was discharged.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 249, 11 March 1913, Page 5
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176SHELL BAY TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 249, 11 March 1913, Page 5
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