CABLE NEWS. A REVOLTING CRIME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7349, 2 December 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. A REVOLTING CRIME.

SICKENING DETAILS.

Per Press Association. Received December 2. 9.15 a.m. PERTH, December 2. A shocking tragedy, perpetrated a week ago, 'has been brought to light. The victim is a woman named Clark, who had been living with a gardener named Moore at Belmont Park. - Moore confessed to the crime, and described the manner in\ which ho had disposed of the body, by burying it 6ft deep in the kitchen.

lhis had been done so completely that but for Moore's subsequent actions the crime might never have been sheeted home. ■

The couple quarrelled frequently, and the story Moore told to the neighbours was that the woman had cleared out. On the night of the murder the woman was heard crying out, "Oh Jack ! .Oh, Jack 1" ': The neighbours subsequently had suspicions, and informed the police, who, in examining the kitchen, prodded the soft earth floor with a stick, which Moore sharpened for them for the purpose.

Moore accounted for boxes of women's apparel in the loom by stating that, they had been leffc by his previous housekeeper, Mrs Pearson, whose whereabouts will . also how be investigated.

Search with a pointed stick revealed nothing, because it was only 3ft long. On a second visit by Inspector Con* nell, he found Moore restive, and unable to sleep, his stretcher being over the soft earth floor, on the spot where, the body was subsequently found.

When confronted by the' Inspector, Moore confessed to the murder, and said : "We -had a row, I -was sitting on a box reading the paper, when she came in and said good-bye. A few seconds afterwards she came back into the room with an axe, which had been hidden for some time previously, and made a swipe at me. I ducked, missed the blow, and then jumped up and punched her. Then I grabbed her by the throat and strangled her, and there she is ! She is clown there," pointing to the floor. ■ .

He had burned her boots and clothing, and buried the body naked with lime.

The body, when exhumed, was in a shocking state.