HUSBAND SHOT
A WIDOW’S CONFESSION PUT HIM OUT OF MISERY AT HIS OWN REQUEST United pres? As.«n.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received August 25, 1 1.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 25 After an Inquiry by the city coroner Into the death of William Thomas, his widow, Mary Cecilia Thomas, was committed for trial on a charge of murder. In a statement alleged to have been made by her to the police Mrs Thomas said that at the request of her invalid husband, who pleaded to be put out of his pain, she shot him. William Thomas, aged 60, died as the result of gunshot wounds at the suburb of Chatswood on August 20. He was reported to have been suffering from a tubercular complaint which he believed to be Incurable. The man appealed to his doctor, also to his wife, to end his sufferings. Detective's arrested the wife, Mary Ceoilia Thomas, aged 39, who is the mother of three young children, on a charge of murdering her husband.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20281, 25 August 1937, Page 7
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165HUSBAND SHOT Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20281, 25 August 1937, Page 7
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