MYSTERIOUS CRIME IN SYDNEY GARAGE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6947, 28 June 1929, Page 7

MYSTERIOUS CRIME IN SYDNEY GARAGE

Murder Without Motive

CORONER COMMITS DEAD MAN’S BROTHER

WAS WRONG MAN SHOT?

United Press Association —By Electrij Telegraph —Copyright. Received Thursday, 1 Ip.m. SYDNEY, June 27.

At the inquiry into tho garage shooting case, the Coroner returned a verdict that Joseph Simon was murdered by his brother William Simon, whom lie committed for trial. The Coroner discharged Philip Malouf, who was under arrest on a charge of the murder. The Coroner remarked that it was a strango case. The murder could have been committed by any one of four persons. Tho evidence was extremely contradictory, there was an absence of motive and thero was a possibility that the bullet had found tho wrong mark. Simon Brothers' garage at Darlinghurst, on April 17, was the scene of a tragedy. Hearing two shots, "William Simon, who was working in the garage office, rushed into the workshop and found his brother Joseph dying with a bullet wound in his temple. Philip Malouf, who was employed by the Simons, was sitting in the workshop in a dazed condition, with an automatic revolver in his hand. According to William, who told the police, he then knocked Malouf unconscious with a block of -wood. The parties arc members of wealthy Syrian families. William Simon stated there had been some dispute over money that was missing from the till. William was Later charged with maliciously harming Malouf.