MURDER AND THEFT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1922, Page 5

MURDER AND THEFT.

CHARGE AGAINST AIRMAN. ECCEKTRIC AND CRUEL. I LOXDOX. May 3. Tiie l ourt has roinmenced the hearing of the charge apiinst. Ronald True, a ' former flying oifUer. for ii>nrdering Ger- ' trade Y«t«s in n fashionable flel at Ful- I ham. end stealing her jewellery. ', I Kvidenec was ;rivrn tl'at accused mc | I remarkable lor his recentrieitie?, innludj ing a project to fo:m a "bobanob club," I tlir niprnbers of which undertook to uiurI der tlieir mother-in-law and "other super- ' fluous person r" ior a shilling cacb. He ! a.so cJir.ousßcd a "flurle' , club for those who were not successful in murdering ■ their aunt, it was stated that- tvhen True I v.cij .igrd four lie buried his pot rabbit.*, lenvinp their heads visible, because he wanted lo see l!i?m daily until they siarved. When six he subjected his ovro pony to rverj- conceivable cruelty. He ■a-B= alwayc different from other cliildren. Whin i'rnp was 11 his mothpr became dangerously ill. and he inert* l .- remarked: J "If >he dies her property will be rrwne." lie suffered an the resiik of s bad flying accident, after which he ( ontrnried (he iwrphin habit. Tlic wife teetifiod that her husband's stories oi lieroic air exploit.« proved to be imaginary.— (A. and I N.Z. Cable.)