WESTRALIAN HORROR

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1928, Page 5

WESTRALIAN HORROR

MAD MIGRANT’S CRIME

MURDER AND OUTRAGE

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

PERTH, June 24.

A crime unparalleled in the history of the State of Westralia, is reported from Wubin, north of Perth. A man named Clifford Hulme, who was employed by a farmer named Harold Eaton Smith, near Wubin, reported to the police that ho had killed Smith.

The police investigated the matter, and found Smith in the bush with a bullet wound in his head. The police also found that Smith's wife and his six-year-old daughter and his baby, aged twelve months, had been violated. The wife had her skull fractured by a blow from a piece of wood. Before the wife was assaulted, she was tied to a bed.

Hulme is alleged to have stated that, immediately after having committed the offences, he went, to the police station and made a confession. I. ATER.

Another daughter. Elsie, aged 10 years, states that Hulme tried to strangle her when she attempted to intervene. Mrs. Smith was released from the bedpost by Elsie, and walked nine miles the next morning to the. nearest neighbour, where she collapsed.

All. the victims .are in the hospital, in a very grave condition. Hulme is now under arrest. He told the police that he shot, Smith while the latter was driving a tractor, adding that his mind was a blank after that, but he remembered changing his clothes and walking 23 miles to Wubin, then, entraining for Dalwallina. Hulme was barn on Lord Lascelles’ estate in England, and has been in Australia for five years. He does not appear to realise the gravity of the charge.