THE ENMORE MURDER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 174, 25 July 1907, Page 3

THE ENMORE MURDER.

DETAILS OF THE CRIME

SYDNEY, July 10;

The murder committed at Enmore early on Monday morning was of a revolting character. A poor, inoffensive old woman, 73 years old, Mrs Mary Macnarama, widow of a sergeant of police, was battered to death, and when her dead body was found in bed some hours later by her nephew, the face was smashed beyond recognition, and a strip 7 torn from the sheeting was bound tightly round her throat. Before the murder was discovered, a man named Nicholas Baxter, a, labourer, was arrested at one of the suburbs, Homebush, for drunkenness ; but when he was searched at the station certain jewellery was found upon him, as well as a knife stained with blood. He could give no satisfactory account of his possession of the jewellery. Then, later in the day, when the murder became known, and the jewellery was identified as having belonged to the dead woman, Baxter was charged with the capital offence. He has since made a confession.

Mrs Macnamara lived alone in the house where she was murdered, and the place adjoins a biscuit factory where Baxter had worked for six years as a watchman. Robbery was obviously the motive for the crime; yet, though the murderer ransacked the place, he missed 37 sovereigns which were in'the room in a package.