MURDER TRIAL
GIRL CHARGED WITH KILLING HER FATHER BRUTALITY BY DECEASED ALLEGED (Recd This Day, 12.50 p.m.) PERTH, This Day. • The trial has commenced of Eunice Mary Hornby, aged 18, charged with the murder of her father, whom the Crown alleged she shot through the head as he sat on a chair, in the kitchen of his home at Hester Siding, on June 18. At the inquest, evidence was given that Hornby had for a long period been violent and cruel to the members of his family. The widow gave evidence that deceased had threatened to kill her, and had said he would torture her to death. At the trial Detective-Sergeant Jackson said members of the family told him that Hornby had been kicking his wife and family with clogs. A neighbouring farmer said Hornby had once kicked a cow to death with his clogs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1938, Page 8
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145MURDER TRIAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1938, Page 8
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