MURDER OF STOREKEEPER
ALLEGED CONFESSION BY ACCUSED
TEN-YEAMH.D AUSTRALIAN CHIME
SYDNEY, /DJovember 4,
A statement that the accused was overheard' to say that he killed* Henry Layers, a storekeeper, in 1936, was made in the Grenfell Police Court, today by the. Crown Prosecutor, Mr T. S. Crawford, K.C., when Frederick Lincoln/ McDermot, aged . ; :38,", a. labourer, appeared charged with the murder. ,
Mr, Crawford said a witness would be .called who would . say he heard McDermot ’ make the statement in 1944: “1 ‘ did ’ Lavers. I • had no money to pay. I hit him on the head, and the body was placed in the back of •a. car and taken to a'sheep yard and buried.” Although in December, 1944, McDermot denied that he had, made the statement, Mr Crawford said,. the accused admitted at Dubbo, on 10, 1946, having said that he killed Lavers. The Crown would endeavour to prove that the murder was the act of two nien .who were travelling in*, a light motor car. a cart of which would lie tendered in evicleuce. The first' witness was called. tliisafternoou, and the case is proceeding. It is interesting in Australian crime history iii that the body of. the deceased has not beed found.
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Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 8
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