SHOT IN A BALLROOM
TRAGEDY IN GOVERNMENT HOUSE. (CNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTMOBT.) PERTH, 27th August. During a public ball at Government House, Cyril Gidley, 20 years' of age," an engineer on a Government motorlaunch, was shot dead. The tragedy occurred while a dance was in progress. Gidley was dancing when a single woman, Audrey Jacob, aged 20 years, walked up to him, and, saying "Ive got you," drew a revolver and shot him dead. The girl was arrested and charg|ed with murder. It is understood that Gidley had been engaged to marry Miss Jacob, but it was broken off. Miss Jacob attended the ball as a pieretto, but left and went home at 11 o'clock. About that time a shot was heard in tho chambers where she lived, but a search by the police failed to disclose anything- wrong. Early in ths morning she returned to tho ball, in another costume, and waa apparently surprised to sco Gidley, whom she thought had gone away with his ship. It was then that tho shooting occurred. ... The flirl's dwneanour vat extraordinarily calm, and in Court the wa* quite emgtionlwi,
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 7
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186SHOT IN A BALLROOM Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 7
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