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Evening Star, Issue 19431, 14 December 1926, Page 5

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JAVA MURDERER TO HANG Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WELTEVREDEN, December 13. (Received December 14, at 9.40 a.m.) The Governor-General has refused to grant the murderer Eatjim’s petition for mercy. Mrs Macfie, who was the wife of the Consul of Spain, Mr H. C. Macfie, of Svdney, arrived at Weltevreden on September 13 last year, and went to stay at a village hotel in Garoet, a small health resort. She had dinner in the hotel that evening, after which nothing was seen of her alive. The hotel manager on the following morning knocked at the door of Mrs Macfie’s room. He received no answer. On forcing an entry to the room the manager found the body of Mrs Macfie in bed with severe wounds in the throat and arms. A robbery theory he considered untenable, because a wrist watch and a purse containing money remained untouched, pair of earrings and a small souvenir basket were missing. A watchman stated that bo saw a light in the deceased’s room at 3 a.m. The door was closed, but at 6 a.m. the door was open and the room was dark. Two natives named Eatjim and Reuben Racbmen, who were later charged with the murder of Mrs Macfie, confessed that they committed the crime with the object of robbery. The natives said they stabbed Mrs Macfie while she was asleep. Raehman was sentenced to imprisonment for life.