Am resending the "COBCROFT MURDER" article. Apologies for my last few posts which had inserted styles and gobbledy goop. Obviously a recent issue with Hotmail and Firefox so I have swapped browsers. The article was about the death of Henry Cobcroft at Wilberforce in 1901. His wife Margaret was charged with the murder however the jury returned a not guilty verdict and the case was dismissed. THE WILBERFORCE TRAGEDY. "An inquest was held to-day on the bcdy of William Cobcroft, the victim at the Wilberforce tragedy. From the evidence of one witness it appeared that Cobcroft and his wife were having an altercation in ithe kitchen, when the wife suddenüy seized a carving knife and stabbed Cobcroft in the back. The wife, who was in custody, deposed that she and her husband were struggling, he with a knife in his hand. She wrested the knife from him, and in her endeavor to keep him off the blade entered his back, she knew not by what means. A verdict was returned to the effect that deceased died from hemorrage, caused by a knife wound in the back, which knife was in the hand of Margaret Cobcroft. The jury strongly recommended her to mercy on account of the great provocation she received. She was committed for trial. From the evidence adduced it was elicited that deceased and his wife were continually quarrelling." Source: The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Wednesday 6 March 1901 p. 5