FAIRFIELD TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 19387, 22 October 1926, Page 6

FAIRFIELD TRAGEDY

CURRY DECLARED INSANE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, October 22. (Received October 22, at 9.55 a.m.) William Frederick Curry was found not guilty of murder, on tho ground of insanity’, and was ordered to ho detained during the Governor’s pleasure. [Mrs Margaret Curry, aged thirtytwo years, was found dead at her home with her throat cut. There was a razor some distance from the Body, and signs of a fierce struggle. The body was on a bed and the razor was 6ft away. The discovery of the tragedy was made by tho deceased’s child, aged three, whom a lodger in the house found crying outside after it had found the mother’s body. Tho husband of Mrs Curry entered tho Fairfield police station and confessed that he had committed the murder. He said that he first hit his wife on the head with an iron bar. She managed to struggle through the bedroom window into the garden. He chased her, and she fell unconscious. He dragged her back to the bedroin, and laid her on the bed and slashed her throat with a razor.]