TORONTO TRAGEDY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18400, 5 June 1925, Page 9

TORONTO TRAGEDY.

ALLEGED CONFESSION.

(BY CABLE —PBXSS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

(Received June 4th, 10.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 4,

The inquest on Mona Beacher, the victim of tho Toronto tragedy, was commenced at-Newcastle.

A huge crowd, mostly women, violently struggled to gain admittance to the Court. Oakes was present in custody. Medical evidence showed that the girl died as a result of concussion, perhaps hastened by hemorrhage. Tho police produced a statement alleged to have been made by Oakes at the police station, after his arrest, in which he said that in consequence of : what the girl had told him they agreed to get married. After the ceremony they wont to Toronto. About midnight he got up while Mona was asleep and murdered her with a razor and a hammer. He then detailed how he, tried to obliterate the traces of the crime. He took train to Sydney, Bent a telegram to Mona Beacher's parents, and then returned home. He did this as he knew he had done wrong and did not want to be found out. Later. Oakes was committed/for trial for wilful murder. [Augustus Oakes, 23, is charged with the murder of Mona Beacher, Oakes, who is said to be a married man with a family, was married t6 the girl o» Friday, May 15th. They rented a cottage in Toronto, near Newcastle, under the name of Turner. Uncollected food supplies aroused suspicion, and when the owner of the dwelling forced an entranco he found the girl's body in the bedroom.]