WILFUL MURDER.
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*» A SYDNEY TRAGEDY. (Received Last Night, 8.20 o'clock.) SYDNEY, August 26. At the inquest in connection with the death of Joseph Donne, a butcher's salesman, who was shot by his wife on August 7th, the evidence showed that Donne and his wife had been living apart, and on the morning of the tragedy, the husband sent to the house for several boxes, but the wife refused to give them up. Later sha went to the shop, where he was working. She was armed with a revolver, but declared that ©he did not intend to shoot, the revolver going off by accident. When a verdict of wilful murder was returned against her, Mrs Donne cried excitedly "You cannot call it murder. It was not wilful murder."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 5
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135WILFUL MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 5
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