Catherine Hughes

Catherine Hughes died after receiving an injury to her stomach.

Her husband was tried for her murder but found not guilty.

Her husband had been a cabman.

They had lived together for 15 years and at the time had been living at 141 Waddell Street, Glasgow.

At the trial it was heard that he had kicked her on the night of 27 June 1917, inflicting injuries from which she later died in the Royal Infirmary on 18 July 1917.

Her dying deposition was taken at the Royal Infirmary in which she stated that her husband had knocked her down and kicked her once in the stomach and that he had not been the worse for drink at the time but that he had assaulted her because she had had a 'dram'.

A neighbour said that she had heard Catherine Hughes and her husband quarrelling on the night and that she heard a thud and a woman's moans, followed by a man's voice saying, 'You'll never breathe again'.

However, their daughter and a doctor said that Catherine Hughes told them that she had received her injuries by falling from a dresser. However, a policeman that spoke to Catherine Hughes at the infirmary said that Catherine Hughes told him that she had told her daughter that story to shield her husband.

However, the jury found the husband not guilty.