AN IRATE FEMALE.
(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION). Wellington, Last Night. The hearing of the charges of shooting Mrs Dick against the woman MacWilHams produced a very unpleasant scene in the S.M. Court. Accused continually interrupted the witnesses, and when Mrs Dick appeared loaded her with foul abuse, accusing her of robbing her and soon. So persistent was she that MiKenny, S.M., at length consulted with Mr Skerrett, who appeared for the Crown, as to whether it would not be possible to remove the woman and go on with the case in her absence, but this, of course, was not found feasible, and there was nothing for it but to proceed. The watchhouse keeper said when the prisoner was brought into the station, she said Mrs Dick had robbed her of a thousand pounds, and she meant to kill her, and was sorry she did not. Prisoner denied this and said she only intended to maim her ; killing was too good. She wanted to make her suffer, as she had made prisoner. Eventually, McWilliams was committed for trial, punctuating the Magistrate's formal charge with a fire of interjections. Mr Kenny said in all his experience he had never seen a woman behave so disreputably in court before.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 362, 3 November 1898, Page 2
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206AN IRATE FEMALE. Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 362, 3 November 1898, Page 2
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