THE YASS TRAGEDY.

Mataura Ensign, 20 July 1914, Page 5

THE YASS TRAGEDY.

1 ;i " HAD PAID A TERRIBLE PRICE." BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. SYDNEY, July 19. ■Norman Moßeau's letter, confessing the murder of Miss McAlister, stated that the girl had paid a terrible price and he would pay his. He did not want an innocent person to 'be blamed. He stated that he offered Miss iMcAlister a private marriage, but she desfred' open reparation. The first shot he fired killed, her. "EVERYTHING WAS BLACK." Received Julv 20, 5.55 a.m. SYDNEY, July 20. The coroner found that Mcßcan murdered Miss McAlister. A rider to the verdict stated that there was ample evidence to show that he was not in a normal mental condition at the time the deed was committed. The confession added that he and the girl sinned once and he brooded- over it. Everything was black and he wasi mad. He had always led a clean life before. He considered his- father from the start or he should have gone into the open and married her. He knew it would nearly kill his father. "I sinned, then brooded, then this," he continued. "We both paid for our sin causing misery and suffering to others." Both families are of the highest respectability.