WOMEN IN THE CASE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 January 1927, Page 9

WOMEN IN THE CASE.

THE BRISBANE MURDERS. POLICEMAN AS DON JUAN. SYDNEY, Jan 14. As detectives piobe into the circumstances surrounding the murder of Sergeant Camming and Mrs. E. G. Walsh, whose bodies were found near Brisbane Gaol on December 24, and whose murderers have so far escaped arrest, they have discovered some amazing things regarding the policeman’s relations with many women. Letters have been found which established the fact that he was concerned in numbers of liaisons with women, most of them married. Only a few weeks before he was found dead, he was assaulted with a paling by a man in the backyard of whose house he had made an appearance which was difficult of explanation. Four years ago, also, a shot was fired at Sergeant Camming at Mount Alorgan. It has now been established that the shot was fired by Cumming’s wife. Hi that instance the trouble arose over his attentions to other women, and he was shot at with his own pistol as he entered his gate early one morning. Camming was a man, who, had he been normal in his sex interests, might have lived a most comfortable life. He had the faculty for making money. While he was .stationed at Yamba lie was better known as a cattle dealer than a policeman. So much that the Department instituted inquiries, and transferred him. At his death he had a substantial sum to his credit it the bank, and he owned the home his family lived in at Woolloongabba. His home life, however, was unhappy. When his long service leave fell due he took it alone to New Zealand and the southern States, and there lia-d had been strained feelings not only between husband and wife, but between Cumming and his eldest son. As a further instance of the tenseness of the situation, it is mentioned that on a recent evening his wife encountered him at a dance hall in South Brisbane, and openly chided him for Jiis attitude towards women younger than himself. The theory for a time regarding the murders of Cumming and Mrs. Walsh was that they had been shot bv some park thief, the motive being robbery. But this was discountenanced By the fact that more than £5 in ca-sh was in the dead policeman’s pockets when his body was found A theory more strongly supported by the official view is that there were two persons associated with the killing. There were two persons in male clothing seen in the vicinity of the tragedy on the night, in question. One was a man of medium height, while the other was of smaller build. Unfortunately, the identity of neither has been established.