GRUESOME FARES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1919, Page 2

GRUESOME FARES.

TWO CORPSES IN MOTOR-CARS. PERTH, May 1. A remarkable double tragedy was discovered in 'exiraordinaxy ;ci«mmstances early on Thursday morning. A motor driver named Weylandt drove up to the central police station with two corpses in his car. . De-ith in. each case was due to a bullet wound in the temple. Weylandf, stated he was engaged on Wednesday evening by Mr A. E. Murray, of Gottesloo, to drive Miss Eva Downey, a barmaid, and other friends about the city. ,'-.After dropping the othe<- members of the party at their homes the car proceeded at an early hour in the morning to Miss Downey’? home in West Perth. Weylandt, heard two reports, buf attributed the no*se to the machine bapk-firing. He waited lor Murray and, Miss Downy to alight, but as thgy did not get put/he thought they were aslefp, and he himself fed asleep. On waking , fpnnd that his passengers were dead, and the bodies cold.

Murray was a man of mature age, married, and the father of a family. He had been an hotel owner at Kalgwlie, and latterly he managed a station at Murchison. He retired several m«mths ago and came to Perth. He left leittrs declaring his indention to 1 commft «uicide.