THE YASS TRAGEDY
CORONER'S VERDICT,
By Talegrauli—Press Association—Oopyrlirht )'■"\ ■ . .■■. '"; Sydney, July 20^ The Coroner found that M'Bean mur, dered Gertie M'Alistcr, and added ' a rider'tbat there was ample eyidonce to show that M'Boan.was not in a normal raental condition at the time the deed was committed. The confession added that he , and the girl had sinned once, and he , had brooded over it until everyr thing was black. He had always led a clean life before. Ht had considered his fatlicr- from the start, or ho s.hould have gone into the open and married her. He knew that would nearly kill his father. . "I; sinned, then brooded; then this.. We have both paid for our sin of causing • misery, and suffering to otherp '■'■ ■• . ' •..
3oth families are of the highest respectability, ■■'' ' ■~
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2207, 21 July 1914, Page 5
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