AUSTRALIAN MURDERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1928, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN MURDERS

TRAGEDY FOLLOWS LUNCH BOARDER KILLS WOMAN (Australian Press Association., (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, September 28. The police have received advice that Margaret Williams, aged twenty-five years, single, was found dead in a house at Wonthaggi, with her throat cut by a razor. The dead woman’s sister-in-law, Mrs Williams, stated that the deceased. and a man had lunch with hei< Shortly after this she (Mrs Williams) left the room. She heard screams, and on return lig she found Margaret Wil- ■ liams dead on the floor. The man, who was a boarder in the house, had disappeared. /

CHINESE POISONED

(Recd Sept. 29, 11.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 29.

A startling disclosure was made at the inquiry into the death of Percy Gow, Chinese merchant, who with his European wife- lived in the City. Medical evidence showed that arsenic was in Gow’s stomach and that he had had a lingering illness. ' His widow, a few days after his death, married Ernest Trapman of the Australian Navy, who frequently visited the Gows. He admitted familiarity was Mrs. Gow whom h,e loved very dearly. • < The Police produced a statement in which Trapmon declared that Gow begged him to give him poison to finish him. He first declined; then agreed and gave Gow a spoonful from which he died. The inquiry was adjourned. MURDERER REPRIEVED '(' SYDNEY, Sept. 29. The death sentence'on Jackson for ‘the Mokey murder on (June 16) has \ been commuted to life imprisonment-