A MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1904, Page 5

A MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.

MURDERER EXECUTED. [WIESS ASSOCIATION.] MELBOURNE, Bth September. Charles Williams, who murdered Mrs. Veitch, was hanged to-day. Death was instantaneous. Williams leit a confession, jn which ho stated that he had committed tho crimo in a lit of passion. Ho declared that he hud no other motivo for the deed, and that Mrs. Voilch had always boon good and kind. Tho crimo montioned in tho abovo cablegram was a most dastardly affair. 'On the 19th July Mrs. Yoitch, wife of a baker, was found dead in her house. In hor hand was tightly grasped a whip with which slio had apparently defended horsolf. Her assailant appeared to have attacked her witli a knife, and inflict od a nurabor of gashes upon her arms and hando and body, nnd eventually to lirfvo thrown her to the floor, and cut at hor neck until her head was almost severed from hor body. Williams, a young man, when arrested, confossod having conunittotl tho crime. Ho said Mrs. veilch overheard him uao improper language, and roprimandod him for it, wltorcupon ho addressed her in a way which led hor to utso t lie lioroo whip. A struggle followed, and he sought to fright-on her with a carving knifo, and then becoming fearftit at finding ho hud stabbed hor, Tic resolved to silence hor by cutting her throat.