MELBOURNE TRAGEDY

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 9

MELBOURNE TRAGEDY

CONFESSION OF MURDER. (Rec. December 3, 9.30 p.m.) Melbourne, December 3. The mutilated body of Emma Hill, aged 17 years, was found by the police on the bank of the Yarra. The discovery ' was made as the result of the statements of George Devitt, aged 27 years, who, in the early hours of the morning, hailed a taxi-cab and told the driver he wanted to be driven to the police station. Devitt’s throat was cut and he was covered with blood when he arrived at the station. He told the police he had left a girl dead near the river, after cutting her throat, and then cutting his' own. After several hours’ search the police found the girl s body. There were evidences of a desperate struggle, and examination revealed that even after the girl’s throat had been hacked she had been subjected to outrageous treatment. The girl had been in the habit of going out with Devitt, but had lately told him she did not want to go again with. him. After this repulse, Devitt (who is. in hospital and guarded by the police) became moody and wrote the gfirl, arranging a meeting for last night.