RELIGIOUS MANIAC
MURDERED “FOR CHRIST’S SAKE.” By Telegraph—?resn Association—Copyright (Received July" 15, 8.60 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 15. Drysdale has been committed for trial for wilfully murdering Miss Day on May 31st. * He told the police that he bought a revolver to shoot Miss Day and himself. Asked why he did so, he replied:— “For Jesus Christ’s sake.” No motive for the crime has been disclosed. A remarkable tragedy occurred in North Sydney on May 31st. A voung man named Drysdale shot his friend. Miss Day, _ dead, and then wounded himself seriously. Drysdale was believed to bo suffering from religious mania. He made a rambling statement in the hospital. He looked Tip to heaven and said that something told him he must take the girl’s life, and then he went inside and did the shooting. He added that the Bible referred to the new life 'hereafter, and he wanted to go there with Miss Day.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8481, 16 July 1913, Page 7
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