FULHAM TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 17959, 4 May 1922, Page 6

FULHAM TRAGEDY

TRIAL OF ROHALD IHOE. AN ECCENTRIC PERSONALITY, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, May 3. At the hearing of the charge against Ronald True, a femcr flying officer,_ of murdering Gertrude Gates in a fashionable flat at Fulham ami stealing her jewellery, evidence was given that accused was remarkable lor his eccentricities, including a project to form a “ Bnb-n-nob club, of which members undertook to murder molhors-in-law and oilier superfluous persons for a shilling each. lie also discussed a duds’ clul), for those who were unsuccessful in murdering their aunts. It was stated that when True was aged four he buried his pet rabbits, 'leaving their .heads visible, because ho wauled to sM them daily until (hey starved. _ When six years of age ho subjected his own pony to every conceivable cruelty. Ho was" always different from oilier children. When True was eleven his mother became dangerously ill, and ho merely remarked 1 : “ If she dies her property will bo mine.” Ho suffered a bad flying accident, after which he contracted the morphia habit, True’s wife testified that her husband’s stories of heroic air exploits proved l to bo imaginary.—A. and N.Z, Cable. [On March 6 a tragedy was reported in a fashionable flat at Fulham. The body of a- young woman (Gertrude Gates, known as Olivo "Young) was discovered in tho bathroom. She had been gagged, her throat cut, and her head battered. A mail who was a frequent visitor to tho flat loft hurriedly in tho morning, telling tho maid not to disturb Miss Gales, who was sleeping. True was arrested soon afterwards and charged with murder.]