ALLEGES HORRIBLE MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 24, 28 January 1910, Page 6

ALLEGES HORRIBLE MURDER.

On a charge of having feloniously and maliciously murdered Homa Brady, ox Mitchell, at Sydney, on or about May 8, 1009, Peter Brady, 29, a barman, appeared (before Mr. G. M. Smithers, S.M., a/; the Central Police Court. Olive IMitcGieU etated that she <wae a married woman, living apart from, her husband, and that she resided at Waymss-street, Surry Hills. She knew the accused, and had been 'livang with him for about two years. On November 23rd she gave birth to a [female child, and Peter Brady was the father. The •child became ill. and at the end of four or five months, Brady suggested that he was going to do away witi it. He took the child upstairs 'to the bedroom, and afterwards told -witness he had strangled the child by putting a brass •wire round its throat when a second dose of laudanum did not answer the purpose. After tea the accused put the child in a eugarIbag, and then in a 'hamper, and took it out of the house. He came back about four hours later -with, the body, and said that he had been run by ■water police. This liappened on a Sunday night, the body was in the house until Sunday Afternoon. Subsequently witness went ■with aooused in a boat and he sank the body in the deepest part of the harbour. The case stands partly heard.