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THE YASS TRAGEDY. "WE HAVE PAID FOR OUR SIN." \ _______ : (Per Press Associations-Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 18. Norman Mcßean's letter,' confessing to the murder of Miss McAlister, stat° ed, "The girl has paid a terrible price. I will pay mine. Ido not want an innocent person to be blamed. I offered Miss McAlister private marriage; she desired open reparation. The first shot killed her." (Received July 20, 8.55 a.m.) . ; SYDNEY, July 20. The Coroner found: that Mcßean murdered Miss McAlister, but added a rider that there Avas ample evidence ito show he was not in his normal men|tal condition at the time. the deed was committed. - / ■ .
In Mcßean's -confession .he added. that he and the girl sinned once, and he brooded over .it • everything was black; he was mad; he had always led a clean life before; he considered his father from the start, or he should have I gone into the open and married the! girl, but he knew it would nearly kill his father. ' , '^The letter "concluded: ; "I sinned, then brooded, and then did this. We have both paid for our sin, and have caused misery and suffering to others." Both families are of the highest respectability.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8894, 20 July 1914, Page 5
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