HOMICIDE CHARGE
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SHELL HARBOUR TRAGEDY. DAUGHTER ARRESTED FOR KILLING HER FATHER. (Received March 6, 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 6. The young woman Kate Biely has been. arrested at Shell Harbour on a charge of murdering her father. At the inquest Mrs Siely gave evidence that deceased drank heavily, and sytematically ill-treated her and her dauhgters. On Sunday night he was so violent that tlhey had to obtain police protection. On Sunday morning, after more drinking, he struck her a.nd forced his daughters to give him money. He then got a knife and a gun a.nd threatened to murder the whole family. Kate was struggling to get the gun from him, when it exploded and shot her father rn the head. Another witness, who visited the house shortly after tho tragedy, said that Mrs Siely told him that Kate had shot her father. Kate added: "Father was goino; to kill motncr and I did' it to save her."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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166HOMICIDE CHARGE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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