BACKBLOCKS TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 19000, 23 July 1925, Page 5

BACKBLOCKS TRAGEDY

MURDER OF.MISS ENRIGHT ARREST AFTER A YEAR Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, ; Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, July 23. i Received July 23 at, 9.45 a.m.) Alexander Clarence Thomas lias been arrested in connection with the death of Bridget Enright, and charged with nmrdor. Jlo was remanded. Thomas was living under the name of Maxwell. .■ Jr, is alleged that lie uttered falsa cheques. Tie was arrested for that reason, and investigation revealed that bo was Thomas.

[Miss Enright was last seen alive on July 27, ] 1)2-1, when, after a visit to Yaehandandab, she was driven by a neighbor to within 1011yds of her house. When the neighbors forced an entraSlco to ibc bouse they found that the bed had not, been made, and that the dollies usually worn by Miss Enright when she was away from homo were in her bedroom. The farm was badly neglected, aml if is not thought possible 1 bat the unfortunate woman could bare possessed inueli means. Tho police endeavored i[o tind the person who wfs seen speaking to the woman on July 27. At tin 1 impiest (lie medical evidence disclosed that thern wore, two bullet wounds in her bead, and. that purl ions of (lal fened bullets of small calibre were entangled in her hair. The indications were that she was shot from a considerable distance. Apparently she had been dead lor several weeks. The deceased inherited a. farm of 2TI acres from her father, and she had lived a lonely life since the death of her mother twelve years ago. I?nmors "'ere current that she kept a large sum o' money in the house, which had been ransacked apparently at the time of flic tragedy.)