GIRL ACQUITTED
ON CHARGE OF MURDERING FATHER EXPLANATION ACCEPTED BY JURY PERTH, July 13. The jury, after only fifteen minutes’ deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty in the case where Eunice Mary Hornby, aged eighteen, was charged with murdering her father. The girl was discharged. Explaining to the jury the circumstances of the crime the girl said that her father had a terrible temper and had threatened to “get mother” when she returned from the neighbours. “I decided that I would shoot father rather than allow the other members of the family to do so. I obtained my brother's rifle and saw father reading a paper in front of the radio. I came behind him, took careful aim and fired. Father’s head dropped forward.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 5
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125GIRL ACQUITTED Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1938, Page 5
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