TWO SHOCKING TRAGEDIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12900, 24 August 1906, Page 7

TWO SHOCKING TRAGEDIES.

[From dun Special Coubespoxdent.] SYDNEY, August 19. The criminal records of the week contain two terrible cases. At Pennant Hills, a district hot far from Sydney, a Chinaman, in a fit of religions dementia, tomahawked two bids to death, while at Adelaide an Indian has brutally murdered his European wife. Tho Chinese who ran amok is a market gardener named Charlie John Tye. Accompanied by a fellow-countryman, he went to Thornleigh railway station and took out a ticket for Sydney. He had a tomahawk wrapped up in paper under his arm, and suddenly, without any apparent cause, he made a wild rush at a group of men on the platform. As ho neared them ho drew the tomahawk from its wrapping, and, raising the weapon aloft, aimed a blow at John E. Hockley, a slaughterman employed by Mr Pollard. Hockley saw the blow descending just in time to spring back and avoid its full force. He was not lucky enough to escape altogether, for the keen blade caught him just over the eye, causing a nasty wound. Although partially stunned, he was able to swing round and make a dash for safety. The Chinese then made off in the direction of Pennant Hills, and, meeting a milk-boy of nine, named Albert Cordon Pettit, at once hacked him about the head.' His skull was terribly smashed, and he soon succumbed. Not far away the demented Chinese discovered bis second vietbn, Horace Henry Aiken, a youth of sixteen. This young fellow, who is employed by Mr E. Turner, a grocer, of Pennant Hills, was seated in his cart outside the residence of Mr A. G. Hinds, when Tye came up to him. From accounts furnished by eye-witnesses, it appeared that Tye asked Aiken a question, and on the youth bending down to answer him tho Chinaman struck him on tho side of the head with‘ his tomahawk. The blow knocked Aiken out of the vehicle, but did not stun him, and he made to run away. Tyo, however, was too quick for the unfortunate youth, and caught him as he was getting under a fence. The Chinese hit the fugitive onci more’ on the head, and then dragged him into the roadway, where he completed his butchery, smashing his head in and slashing his shoulders with the weapon. This tragedy was witnessed by Mrs Hinds and her five daughters, who were working about their home. They screamed for help, and made an attempt to gain the road. As they did so, however, the Chinese ceased hacking at the huddled-up form of Ids victim, and made a rush at the terrified women. Finding escape from the front blocked, Mrs Hinds led her daughters into tho house again, where they locked themselves up in the dining room. Tye followed, and attempted to break open the doer. Failing in this, he made his way round to the side of the house and entered a bedroom. This move was seen by the women, who left the place by the back and gained the shelter of a neighbor’s residence. The Chinese, seeing a crowd coming in the direction of the house, locked himself up in the, room which he had gained and tried to burn the house down. Two constables were soon on the scene, and succeeded in arresting the Chinese, bnt not without a desperate struggle, in which one of them received a blow from the tomahawk on his shoulder. When in custody, and after lie had calmed down, Tye expressed .sorrow for the murders, and explained that the devil had put it into his head that lie must kill three people to get to Heaven. The Adelaide affair is a most revolting one. The murderer is an Indian Mahorhedan named Notallo (Habibulia), Who some months ago was married to a daughter of Mr E. A. Manson, of North Adelaide. His wife deserted him for a while, and he suspected that she was living with an Afghan at Port Augusta, but at the time of tho murder the pair were reunited. The first clue to the murder was obtained through a sulky belonging to the Indian being found after a collision, with bloodstained clothes in it. On his house being visited, further signs of foul play were discovered, but the body of the victim was missing. The murderer, on being arrested, denied all knowledge of her fate, but the body was ultimately found in mutilated sections in the Torrens River. At the inquest Mav MacNamara, who had been living with No talk and his wife for ten days as the wife’s companion, stated that the three dined together on Sunday, after which Mrs Notalle suggested a drive. Tho man said : “ Yes. I’ll go loo—over to North Adelaide.” After they had dressed for going out, the witness’s sister arrived, and was invited to accompany them. Notalle said he would go To North Adelaide in the tram, and witness and the other two drove to Henley Beach. On returning they met Ethel Manson, and deceased asked “Is he Ijornc?” meaning her husband. Ethel answered in the affirmative, and Mrs Notalk asked “Is he cross?” to which she received the reply : “No; I don’t think so.” They then went home to Bristol street. Deceased wore the hat, dress, boa, tan shoes, and stockings produced while they were nut driving. and only removed her hat when they got home. Notalle returned at ten minutes to eight. Witness said ; “Have you had tea?” and he did not answer. Deceased said ; “That’s a nice way to treat anybody when you come home. Have you had tea?” s . He replied then in the affirmative. He told witness said that her bev was at the comer of the street waiting for her. Notalle asked his wife why she did not go to her mothers place to tea, and she replied 1 that it was too late. When she heard I it strike eight witness bade them goodi night and left. She returned at a. quar-ter-past ten, and found the doors of the house locked, so she entered through the front window. The door of Mr and Mrs Nobilk’s bedroom was closed. A moment later William and Maud Manson and a policeman arrived in Nctalk’s tran. On Sunday afternoon there was a bag near the kitchen door, and two others on the fence. She identified those produced. When she got home at night she missed the bag near tho kitchen door. She recognised the bloodstained shirt produced as the one that Notalle wore on Sunday. She also identified the other clothes r,rock cod, including a collar showing a blood marie. She recognised the table knife exhibited as belonging to the household. The nurse, ring, and bangles produced liad belonged to Mrs Notalle, who wore the ring and bangles on Sunday evening when witness kft_ the house. Prisoner had a different shirt on. when she saw liim in the police yard late on Sunday night. She never heard him use threatening language towards bis wife. When he came into the police yard witness said : “ Where’s the missus?” and he replied : “ I left her at home.”

Evidence by Dr Lynch showed that each leg of the victim’s body had been bent un on the fchich and lashed with a reps. He found blood in the back yard of the house in Bristol street, splashes 7ft away, god stains on an axe, a knife the tew and tho knob of the kitchen door. A niece of bone produced he found in the pool of blood in the vard. ■lt was a portion of the right side of the human pelvis, and corresponded to the missing gap in the right side of the bodv of the deceased. All the male garments produced boro bloodstains. There wore no signs of any struggle in the house, and no bloodstains on tire female clothing shown to him. There were two distinct marks from the verandah to the nool of, blod of something having been dragged. The second Portion of the remains he 'had examined was contained in sugar sacks lashed with rope. ; There were' bruises on one of the cheeks and on the neck.'

large bruise under the right side of the jaw, another oh. the chin, and. one in the rigjit-hand side of the month, while marks of three teeth appeared on the corresponding side of the tongue. The bone* at the base of the tongue was broken,'accompanied by a good deal of bruising. There was an extensive hemorrhage at the base of the brain on the left side, and other injuries to 'the head, including an old indentation of the skull on the right side. The two lower extremities had been divided with a sharp instrument, am} the ■backbone had been divided through the last segment. The woman was in a certain condition. In the centre of the pool of blood in the yard there were several indentations, into which the American axe fitted exactly. Without a serum test, which could not be completed for several days, he could not say whether the blood was human. Witness was of opinion that whatever was done to the deceased in the yard she was not dead when she first got there. The marks on the neck were sufficient evidence that attempts at strangulation were made, but post-mortem appearances were not complete enough to show that death was due to strangulation alone. From the quantity of blood and the general scone in the yard, he thought that she died there. Nolalle has been committed for trial for murder.