GHASTLY SIGHT
MARRIED WOMAN ALMOST DECAPITATED
MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER By Timjgkam—Press Association. Copybight. Melbourne, December 3. A ghastly tragedy occurred in an apartment house in Carlton, where Mrs. Kathleen Price was found with her throat cut and her head almost severed. The police found a young man waiting on the doorstep, with his clothes and hands covered with blood. Going upstairs, the man, Charles Johnson, -pointed to the woman lying face downward in a pool of blood, and fully clothed, and said: “There, she is dead alright. I will say nothing.” Johnson was quiet till he was about to bo handcuffed, and then struck out and knocked a policeman downstairs. Eventually he was arrested, and is charged with murder. —Press Assn.
EVIDENCES OF A VIOLENT STRUGGLE. (Rec. December 3, 10.15 p.m.) Melbourne, December 3.
Johnson, charged with, tho murder of Mrs. Kathleen Price, has been remanded till December 10. The police stated that they were first notified’ of the tragedy by deceased’s eleven-year-old daughter, who was awakened by her mother’s screams, and who saw a man hacking at her throat. There were evidences of a violent struggle.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 59, 4 December 1923, Page 7
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