MURDER CHARGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23178, 26 October 1938, Page 16

MURDER CHARGE

GIRL IN CUSTODY GARDENER FOUND DEAD TRAGEDY IN THE BUSH [FROM OUR OWN" correspondent] SYDNEY, Oct. 21 A 19-year-old girl, Beatrice MoAuliffe, was charged at Central .Polico Station last night with murder. Sh.> was arrested after the body of Paul James Cowell. gardener, aged 22, had been discovered at noon in tho busu at Pennant Hills, an outlying suburb. Cowell died from a bullet wound in the chest.

News of the tragedy reached tho polico when a woman telephoned to them, stating there had been a shoot ing accident. Sergeant Cameron went to Kitchener's Avenue, an unmade road in thick bush, broken by poultry farms. The road ended at a gate, which was 200 yards from a house. Cowell was lying dead on his back in the gateway. He was dressed in shirt, trousers, shoes and socks. Detectives began inquiries shortly afterwards, hile some of them interviewed a girl, others searched the locality. Twenty yards from the gate, and behind a clump of bushes, they found two coats and a shirt, belonging to a man, and a woman's white blouse. The man's clothing is believed to have been Cowell's. Detectives took possession of a small-bore rifle, almost new, which they found in a house. When tl le detectives left the scene of the shooting, they were accompanied bv a girl, who was in the care of a policewoman. On Wednesday night policemen from Hyde, in response to a telephone mes sage, went to Boundary Road, which is adjacent to Kitchener's Avenue. They questioned three men and a giri. whom they saw there, and were told that the party had returned for a car. One of them was Cowell.