NORTHERN MURDER CHARGE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10134, 12 January 1911, Page 5

NORTHERN MURDER CHARGE

♦— — . . ■ ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. ; i By Telegrai)h—Press Association. . AUCKLAND, Last Night. ' During the Police Court hearing of the case against Albert Cash for the murder of his wife at Helensville, ■ Mr Fosbrooke, Coroner, said the dayafter the tragedy Cash told him that on December 22nd' he heard Alfred Wood, railway guard, come out of his wife's room. After , that Be neither ate nor slept, and on Christmas afternoon he searched his wife's box ' for liquor, whicii he feared she had taken to. He then found a letter' from Woods, dated from an Auckland hotel, lii which he said: "I am staying in the room we stayed in." He charged bis wife with this on her return. She said: "Well, if'you don't like it, you can go." Then he became mad, and, remembering that he had sfrazor in his pocket, he killed her. ' •' • ' Wood denied impropriety, but admitted he had met Mrs Cash with-: out her husband in Auckland, five or sis times. Constable Driscoll stated that Cash:' informed him he 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. 1 Cash was committed for trial. Bail was refused.