ALLEGED MATRICIDE.
DEFENCE IN MERRETT TRIAL. LONDON, February 7. The .trial of the youth, John Donald Merrett, on a charge of murdering his mother, was continued. The Court raptly listened to the evidence of Dr. Rosa that Mrs. Sutherland (the housemaid) told him that she saw the deceased (Mrs. Merrett) remove her false teeth and shoot herself in the presence of her son, while Mrs. Sutherland’s back was turned. The witness understood that Mrs. Sutherland saw the deceased falling after the shot. Mrs. Sutherland denied the statement as to the false teeth. Professor Robertson, an alienist, dcposed to the effect that a shot might ** affect the deceased to an extent rendering her subsequent statements unreliable. Sir Bernard Spilsbury (Government Pathologist) said that the accident theory could not be excluded. The case was adjourned.—(A. and N.Z.).
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Wairarapa Age, 9 February 1927, Page 5
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135ALLEGED MATRICIDE. Wairarapa Age, 9 February 1927, Page 5
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