"THE UNWRITTEN LAW."
OHARdE OP MURDER gPEJEOTED.
NEW YORK, December 24.
The grand jury at Watkins,- a town in New York State, haa refused to indict a man named Frederick Soohey, a banker's eon, on a charge of murdering Prederiok Dickinson, bia wife's admirer. The refusal was based on the "doctrine of Ibe unwritten l*w." Counsel appearing for Harry Thaw, the Pittsburg millionaire, who shot Stanford Wblte, another millionaire, at Madison Square Garden Theatre, New York, on Jane 26th, is preparing a similar defenoe on his client's behalf. It was alleged that -White had persisted in taunting Thaw with hii wife's past.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8319, 27 December 1906, Page 5
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102"THE UNWRITTEN LAW." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8319, 27 December 1906, Page 5
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