WILLIAMS'S STORY.
LOST MEMORY AFTER A FIGHT.
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SYDNEY, March 12.
Leslie Williams, aged 23, an electrician, ■whom the police believed to be murdered, but who retnraed to Ms parents' home recently, told the police the following story:—''l can remember being in company with Viscoe, who was arrested in connexion with the case, but I cannot remember how I got to Melbourne. I remember giving Viseoe a lift in the car, and there was a fight, but .after that my memory is a blank."—Australian Press Association.
[Tlifa police suspected that Williams iiad. been murdered, bis motor-car being found on January 29th on the Melbourne-Sydney road. Joseph Visroe, a New Zealander, was arrested nn a-charge of vagrancy, and stated that Williams gave him a lift. They went to sleep and. .when Viscoe awoke, he alleged he found he had been assaulted nnd robbed. Williams had disappeared. Viscoe was later released on bail.J
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19567, 13 March 1929, Page 17
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