GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER.
Received September 19, 9.5 a.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 18. Before the Criminal Court to-day, Frederick Laurence, a painter, aged 02, was charged with the murder of Miriam Meriman at North Sydney on May 23, 1928. Laurence was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. Laurence who was adjudged unfit to plead at the original trial, lias ever since been under observation. The defence at the later trial was that the rifle shot which killed the woman was discharged accidentally.
Miriam Merriman, aged 56, was shot dead at Middle Harbour, North Sydney, on May 23rd, 1928, apparently by a pea rifle. Tho accused Laurence, who had been living with the deceased for 25 years, denied the charge of murder. It appears that he had been unemployed at the time and wanted the woman to shift to another suburb. She declined a 6 she was attached to her home.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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152GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 7
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