PERTH MURDER.
MAN SLEEPS WITH BODIES. (8T CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBItinT.) (AUSTRALIA!! AND V.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) PERTH, February 9. A rnan, fiting his name as Martin, wont to a city hotel on Monday with his wife and child. About noon on Tuesday tho woman and child were found xn bed, apnarently strangled. Details of the tragedy show that ue murderor, nfter strangline his victims, slept in the room all night with the bodies. Tho woman was covered with bruises, was gagged, and had n pillow on her face. The bodies have boen identified as those of Mrs Lilian Martin and her child, Daniel. The police believe the man who hooked the room is not tho woman's husband.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18922, 10 February 1927, Page 9
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115PERTH MURDER. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18922, 10 February 1927, Page 9
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