PETERSHAM MURDER
fiTPHERSON’S CONFESSION Press Association—By Telegraph Copyright. SYDNEY, Juno 21. (.Received June 21, at 9.35 a.m.) M'Pherson’s reported confession states that he had been drinking heavily for five weeks prior to the tragedy. He seemed mad. and did not realise what ho had done When realisation did come to him through tlm or. newspaper imports of Miss Quinn s death, lie decided to return to barney and clear the matter up. [While Martha Quiuu, aged 22, a waitress, was walking to her home in Petersham on tlie night or June 11 a» man in the street fired five shots from t revolver at her. Four of them entered her body. Miss Quinn was dead imn picked up. Her murderer escaped. Norman Clyde MTherson was afterwards arrested at Bathurst.] I
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Evening Star, Issue 19588, 21 June 1927, Page 5
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130PETERSHAM MURDER Evening Star, Issue 19588, 21 June 1927, Page 5
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