MURDER FINDING
AMERICAN FOR TRIAL Sydney, June 19. Sydney’s City Coroner, Mr Oram, found that Harold Claasen, aged 62, proprietor of a residential in East Sydney, was murdered by Clifford William Moderau, aged 21, American naval rating, on 22nd May. Moderau was ?</anmitted for trial, bail being refused. Claasen died in Sydney Hospital. In a statement made by Moderau which was read in Court, he said two men, one carrying a hammer, came to a room at the residential. He received a blow on the head and, to avoid being struck again, he hit one of the men on the face and pushed him dewn the stairs. He then picked the man up again and threw him down .'another flight of stairs. Moderau denied that he had used the hammer on the man. He said he afterward found his wallet, whicji had contained a five-dollar bill and a pound note, was empty.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 30 June 1943, Page 5
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