CHARGE OF KILLING A MOTHER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 28 March 1882, Page 2

CHARGE OF KILLING A MOTHER.

| At the Worcester Assizes, on WednesI dtiy, before Mr Juatice Lopes, Win.; John Pardee'Wilson a gentleman of independandmeanßwas indicted for the'mans w.w-' slaughter of bis mother, Mary Wilson,-at Kempsey, on December 18th. last. Tho deceased and the prisoner lived together at Kempsey, and. on.Sunday fOyeningj;December 18th, tbq prisoner tpolc' t'o'(s' much stimulant, and when his mother on tho head with ' his hand, She did not complain at thejime, but died a week later, the prisoD&ip 'the v. j meantime having called in a medical man, Dr Tunner, who found her with her face discolored and other bruises about,.her w body, On opening tlie skull after.'deaah, ; ; he found a large olofc of. blood on the brain, which was tho cause of death. The■ : .-.iy, clot was an unusually large one—aH large as the palm of the hand, The rupture of the vessel causing the olorarose;ftojnsa blow or fall." It transpired- that ttiie- deceased had fallen down some steps a week 1,: before the prißoner atruok his The medical witnesses were queqtionqd by„, the Judge as to what'was the contributory cause to the clot oii : the brain-rlbe, fall,' ~y down thestepi of Dflc..9, or the' bio#of ( ', the 18th; and Dr.Tiinner said he could not decide—it .wai.' meire apeoulatjcip. ; ~.r jxx Upon th(B : his lquittal, ' A