FIGHT IN THE DARK

Evening Star, Issue 18809, 6 December 1924, Page 12

FIGHT IN THE DARK

brothers quarrel ONE FOUND DEAD. A shocking tragedy was enacted in * weatherboard cottage in George street, Homehush. last week-end (writes the Sydney correspondent of the Auckland btar I under date November 28), two brothers i being concerned. One is dead, having been frightfully cut about the body with a, kuite, | while the other is charged m connection with the killing- . . , The brothers Wright—Frederick (forUtwo) and William (fifty)—were we 1 known in the Homebush district, both being builder’s laborers, and believed to bo on excellent terras with each other. Both men had lived in the cottage with their mother lor twenty years. She died about twelve mouths ago, and since that time (hey have been doing (heir own housekeeping. According to the story the police were able (o get from Mr T. A. Bochc, Dm.ir next-door neighbor. Urn brothers are alleged to have, been hot-tempered, and to b*vo bad frequent quarrels, though afterwards thev would be. on the best of terms again. George street, Homebush, is unlimited bv gas? and the residents rely on candles aiul kerosene lamps. Always when the Wright brothers quarrelled their homo was in darkness, was the story .lnld„tq the police. On Friday night. <it, 9 o’clock, Mr Roche heard the sound of quarrelling', and went info the yard. Thinking it was only one of the usual disagreements, which would he swiftly, settled, he took no further notice, and returned to his own home. A few minutes later, he told the police, William Wright came into his home and borrowed a match, asking him to call a doctor, as his brother wns “crook," Roche followed Wright back to the cottage and a,lieges that he found him, with a fighted candle in his hand, looking down at the blond-drenched body of Frederick Wright, which lay on (ho floor of the kitchen’ in a. pool of blood. The body was fearfully gashed about the stomach with a, table, knife, which lay near by, and it was apparent that if ho was nut dead, death was not far away, Roche hastened to telephone the ambulance and the police, both bodies arriving simultaneously. Frederick V right wag hurried to hospital, whore life was pronounced extinct. After taking a statement from. William Wright, in which it is alleged lie admits that” a quarrel occurred, the police took him to the station and charged him in connection with the death of Ins brother.