MURDER IN MELBOURNE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 292, 10 December 1925, Page 7

MURDER IN MELBOURNE.

CRIME IN A CAFE. A MAN SHOT DEAD. MELBOURNE, December 9. A sensational murder was committed in a city street to-day. Two electricians, Ernest Williams, aged 2.°>, and Jean Macliobcrtson, both Americans, were lunching at a cafe, when a man at a table near them told them Hot to smoke. I Words followed, and Williams then' left the table and walked outside. ! The man who had been arguing with him followed nini out and resumed the I altercation. I Finally, it is alleged, the stranger put! his hand in his hip pocket. Williams! aimed a blow at him and tried to grasp' the hand the man had thrust into his j pocket. ! The stranger is said to have pulled out ' n revolver wrapped in a handkerchief from "his pocket and to have fired at Williams. • j The bullet pierced Williams' heart, and he fell dead. j The stranger ran away, but a con-! stable, who was sitting in a shop on the 1 apposite side of the road and had seen j the occurrence, pursued and arrested him. Later. William R. Wallace, of ' Melbourne, was charged with murder—(A and >\Z. Cable.) MURDERED IN DAYLIGHT. INEXPLICABLE FEROCITY. ■ I I (Received 1 p.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Williams was murdered in daylight in a crowded street. When Wallace left the restaurant Williams accosted him and asked him to I apologise. The men struggled, and Wallace kicked Williams on the body, then drew back and shot him. He made no determined effort to escape. Williams and Macßobertsnn were in business together as electricians.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.) !