MURDER IN MELBOURNE.
| PRIES 4SBGCIAIION.I Melbourne, 28th April. A shocking tragedy is reported from South Melbourne. A man named Thorpe, residing in that district, heard a knock at his door early in the morning, and wbon he opened the door a woman named Kate Norton, with whom he had been living, fell into his arms. She bad a fearful gush in her throat, and died almost immediately. The police have arrested a young man named Arthur Beck, who has confessed that the woman and ho cohabited some years ago, and that they met on the night previous to tho tragedy ; that they spent tho night together, and that, because she refused to resume the old relations, ho cut her throat with a razor, to purchase which he had had to pawn his clothes. The track of the blood showed that the woman had walked 70 yards after the wound was inflicted.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 100, 29 April 1895, Page 2
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151MURDER IN MELBOURNE. Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 100, 29 April 1895, Page 2
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