BRUTAL MURDER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 114, 12 May 1909, Page 4

BRUTAL MURDER.

AN OLD WOMAN KILLED.

ROBBERY SUPPOSED TO BE THE

MOTIVE.

' [press association.] {Received May 12, 1 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 11. A woman named Margaret Gallacher, aged 76, was brutally murdered at Richmond, her head being nearly, ' severed from her body. .' '.. The old woman, lived by herself. It ' is believed that the motive of the , crime was robbery,, as the deceased is supposed to have possessed means.