SERIOUS CHARGE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19735, 27 September 1929, Page 6

SERIOUS CHARGE.

ATTEMPTED MURDER ALLEGED. INCIDENT IN EMPIRE HOTEL. A charge of attempted murder was preferred against Russell George McCarthy in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when a remand till Tuesday next was granted by the Magistrate, Mr E. C. Levvey, on the application of Detective-Sergeant J. B. Young, who represented the police. The accused, whose age is 23 years, was represented by Mr W. F. Tracy. The forma) charge was that, on September 25th, he did attempt to murder Theresa Mary O'Neill. The charge arose from an incident in a room in the Empire Hotel on YVednesday night, when it is alleged that the licensee, Mr Robinson, attracted by the girl's screams, found a man presenting a rifle at the young woman. The latter had been employed*' at the hotel as a domestic for about a year. She went into the domestics' clionging-room on Wednesday evening, and apparently was followed by a man who had entered the hotel unobserved. Terrified by the man's demeanour, the girl screamed for help, and brought Mr Robinson on the scene. It is alleged that there was a struggle, after which the intruder escaped. McCarthy was arrested a short time later. It is believed that the woman and McCarthy had been on friendly terms until recently, when there was a disagreement between them.