TRAGEDY IN HOTEL
WOMAN AND CHILD STRANGLED
(United Press Association.—Cepyright.) (Received 9th February, noon.)
PERTH, This Day. A man, giving cic name of Mai-tin, went to a city hotel yesterday with his wife and child. At about nooii to-day the woman'and the child were found in bed, apparently strangled. Further details show that the murderer, after strangling his'victims slept in the.room,all night with tho bodies. The woman was covered with bruises, was gagged, and had a pillow on her face. Tho bodies were identified as those of Mrs. Lilian Martin and her child Daniel. The "police believe that the man who booked tho room was not tho woman's husband.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 9
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109TRAGEDY IN HOTEL Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 9
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