OUTRAGE AND MURDER.
ALLEGED CONFESSION.
ROSS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
(Received 9 ajm.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
At the Tirtschke inquest Sydney Harding, a prisoner in the Melbourne gaol awaiting trial, gave evidence tlhat Ross, while in gaol, confessed to him that he Had outraged the girl end then lost his head and strangled her wiith his hands. , Then he tore the girl's clothing into strips and threw theim river. The coroner committed Ross for trial oil the charge ocf murder, —A. and N.Z.
MONSTROUS DEED.
SUICIDE CONTEMPLATED.
(Received 11.15 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
Harding also testified that Ross told him he took the girl into his private room behind the bar and gave her three glasses of wine. She went to sleep and when she woke started to moan and cry. He tried to pacify her and then he lost his head and choked her. He washed out the bar to destroy traces of the crime, returned late at night and took the body to where it was found, meantime arranging his movements so as to throw off suspicion. He added that he was going for heavy compensation, but if he were convicted he must get hold of some cyanide. —A. and N.Z. '
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Northern Advocate, 27 January 1922, Page 5
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202OUTRAGE AND MURDER. Northern Advocate, 27 January 1922, Page 5
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