FATHER MURDERED
HOUSEKEEPER’S CONFESSION. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, March 15. A startling development occurred in the Wilson murder case at Walhalla, on February 13. Deceased’s housekeeper, Annie Hillard, aged 38, has signed a confession declaring she shot Wilson, whose son agreed to take the blame. She planned with the son to kill the father, with whom she was living, in order that she might marry the son. It was arranged to cause an argument with the father, but the father declined to become argumentative. Hillard then called him up a dark passage, and shot him dead with his son’s gun. Hillard is now charged with murder. JOCKEY FATALLY STABBED. SYDNEY, March 15. During what the police describe as a domestic quarrel to-night, at Kensington suburb, Edward Ellis, eighteen, a jockey, was stabbed in the neck with a sharp instrument. He died before reaching the hospital. The deceased’s father, Alfred Ridley Ellis, was arrested and charged ‘with murder.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1929, Page 7
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