BARMAID’S DEATH.
CARPENTER COMMITTED TOR TRIAL. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Oct. 5. The inquest on Hilda Hancock resulted in a verdict against Aubrey Chapman, who was commiitted for trial. (On September 1, in a tumbledown washhouse in a Paddington street, the dead bodv of an attractive barmaid, Mrs. Hilda Hancock, who had been recently divorced, was found with the throat slashed by a razor. Nearby was Aubrey Carpenter, a carpenter, aged 33, whose throat also was slashed. A. razor was-found -on the floor close to Carpenter. On the day of her tragic death, Mrs. Hancock was to re-marry. To be polite, Carpenter said Mrs. Hancock invited him to accompany her to tho washhouse. There they lay dowm on a mattress and, after eating a chocolate given him by' Mrs. Hancock, Carpenter remembered no more.)
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10711, 8 October 1928, Page 6
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