CHARGES OF MURDER

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 97, 24 March 1926, Page 7

CHARGES OF MURDER

AUSTRALIA’S TERRIBLE LIST,

AGED RABBITER’S DEATH

BODY FOUND IN RABBIT

WARREN

(By Electric Tolegrapli—Copyright.) Received March 24, 9.5 a.m. SYDNEY, March 24. Walter Arthur Harney was committed for trial at Wilcannia on a charge of murdering William Oliver, an aged rabbiter, whose remains, with tho flesh removed from the bones and the latter disjointed, wore found buried in a rabbit warren near the placo where Oliver and Harney camped.

Harney was arrested when attempting to disposo of Oliver’s property.— Press Association. FATALLY SHOT IN BED. CRIME IN QUEENSLAND. Received March 24, 9.15 a.m. BRISBANE, March 24. At Tully a man named George Mitchell was found in a bed at his home with a bullet wound in. his head. Before dying ho stated that an unknown man fired two shots at him. Later a young man named T. H. Peters was remanded on a charge of murdering Mitchell.—Press Association.

FAMILY QUARREL. SON ALLEGEDLY"KILLS FATHER SYDNEY, March ' 23. Following a family quarrel in which Alexander Strong, 57 years of ago, is alleged to have threatened tho members of his family at Smith’s Creek, near Munvillumbah, his son, Bruce Strong, aged 26, is alleged to have fired two shots with a rifle at his father, killing him. Bruce Strong was arrested and charged with murder. In a statement to the police he said that ho fired in self-defence.— Press Association. DEATH OF A GIRL. FATHER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL SYDNEY, March 23. Alfred Watson has been committed for trial on tho cliargo of murdering his daughter, Ada Watson, by killing her on the eve of a holiday trip which they were to take together.—Press Association. DOUBLE TRAGEDY. RESULT OF~T QUARREL. Received March 24, 9.5 a.m. BRISBANE, Majch 24. At Longreach, after a quarrel, Stanley “Weight shot dead Mrs Elizabeth Priest, a divorcee employed as an hotel cook, and then shot himself dead. The two had ' been keeping company.—Press Association.