TIRTSCHKE MURDER

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6318, 22 February 1922, Page 5

TIRTSCHKE MURDER

SENSATIONA L EVIDENCE

"HOW ARE WE TO GET RID UF HER ?”

MELBOURNE. FM

At t!ie hearing of the. iiitsdike murder case, Eiauk Upton deputed that he went .to Ross’s saloon at one o’clock in the ’■morning on the day the body was discovered. Findii.g the door unfastened lie enteied. He. heard a woman’s voice say: "Oh, my God, durling. how are we going to get lid of her ?’■’ Ross said:

"There’s somebody the:e.” Ke rushed at witness like a lunatic. Upton asked lor a bottle of wine. Ross gave him a beetle and pushed him out in it hurry and failed to take payment: Witness alleged that he saw stains, which he believed to be blood, on Ross’s hands and i,n a towel he was carrying. He afterwards found bloodstains on the wine bottle.

(Received Feb. 22. 1.10 a.m.) • r MELBOURNE, Feb. 22. Olive May Maddox gave evidence .that sbe was in the wme saloon on the afternoon of the tragedy and saw ;i girl like Alma 4:rise.hire sitting there with a glass before her. She said to Ross: "She is a young kid to be drinking.”’ Ross said: ‘"Oh, if .she wants it she can have it.” Six days later Boss said to- her: "You don’t want to tel! the police anvthmg if you know anything. The papers say she was si but that is only for the sake of the public. She was’ a .cheeky little girl.” iw Matthews, who bad been” employe:,! by Ross, gave evidence- that she saw the child sitting in ’ the private saloon on the afternoon of the murder. Witness then detailed a story that Ross met her next dav and said the child came up to him" snd asked him for a drink. He took her J.u. uuci gave her a drink of lemonade without any evil intent. Witness continued that Ross further said: "You know in the company of children 1 feel I cannot control myself. U all over in a moment.”