WESTRALIAN TRAGEDIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 9

WESTRALIAN TRAGEDIES.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) PERTH, this day. Odgcrs denies any knowledge of Williams' murder. He declares he never worked for him and was given the horse and cart to sol] by another man. Richard Thomas Williams, a settler at Werroons, disappeared in the middle of September. His body was found on j Thursday buried a few inches below the j surface of the soil close to his residence ! with the skull battered in. Odgera, who shot Mrs. Molyne.iux on October Rth, j worked for William?. Early in October i ihe sold a horse, cart, and rifle belonging i Ito Williams, and gave a receipt in the ' name of Williams. At the inquest conlerninsr the death of Mrs. Molyneaux, ! i Odser.s was committed for trial. The i j only new evidence was that Olivers, when : ! his jaw. which had been fractured, en- i I allied him to speak, told a constable in j the hospital: "I did not mean to hurt ■ I any of them. Molyneiiux is a coward at ' heart. I pushed her in front of mc and j the rifle went. oil. Only one shot was : fired. 1 took the rille because on a ' former occasion Molyneaux produced an old ?un to frighten mc. J did the damage ! to myself with n dynamite cap. and when the ants pot at mc fired the ritle to attract attention." Deceased's little ! i daughter, however, who hid in a wardI robe while the shooting was on. . i said she heard Od;ers come back, and stand beside her mother".- body, and say. ( •'Well. I intended to do it." Deceased"* husband swore that Odjrers fired several ; shot, from a Winchester repeater at him | while escapin; with his children.