A SYDNEY SENSATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2117, 28 October 1890, Page 3

A SYDNEY SENSATION.

At the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, the other day, Roger Henry Jamieson was charged with having, on September 4th, shot at Thomas Frewin with intent to murder him. The prisoner, who is a young man, at one time kept a tailor's shop, and Frewin, who was a particular friend, often came to the place. At last Jamieson suspected that undue intimacy existed between his wife and his friend, and finally obtaining proof that his suspicions were well founded, commenced divorce proceedings, and made Frewin co-respondent. Frewin heard of Jamieeon's intended action and decided to leave the colony, but unfortunately he was indebted to Jamieson in a considerable sum, and the latter obtained a writ against him and cast him into prison for debt. While Frewin was there Jamieson visited him with the intention of serving him with the necessary citation for the divorce proceedings, and in a moment of supreme passion, at ths sight of the destroyer of his household happiness, he drew a revolver and twice fired at Frewin. Neither of the shots took effect, and Jamies on was overpowered by the warder who was in attendance. The defence was that the prisoner at the time was so much worried by his troubles that he was not really responsible for his actions, and the jury, after a brief retirement, returned a verdict of not guilty, on the ground that when the prisoner fired the shots he was suffering from temporary insanity. In answer to a question of the judge, the jury said they considered the" man perfectly sane at the present time. The judge ordered the prisoner to be confined during the Governor's pleasure.