YASS STATION TRAGEDY.
M'BEAN'S CONFESSION
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Received July 19, at 5;5 p.m. Sydney, July 18. Norman M'Bean's letter confessing the murder of tnegirl M'Alisterstated: "The girl paid a terrible price, and I -will pay mine.'"' < He did not want an innocent person to be blamed. He offered Miss M'Alister private marriage but she desired open reparation. - The first shot killed the girl.
Received. July 20, at 8.55 a.m. Sydney, July 20.
The Coroner Sound that M'Bean murdered Miss M'Alisfccr, adding a rider that there was ample evidence to. show that lie was not in a normal mental condition at the time the deed was committed. The-confession added that he and the girl had sinned! once. He brooded- over it and 'everything was black; ho was mad. Ho had always led a clean life before. He considered his father from the start or he should have gone into the open and 1 - married her. He knew it would nearly kill his father. The note says: "I sinned then and I brooded over it; thus wo have bothpaid for our sin, causing misery and suffering: to others." Both families are of the highest re-
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12292, 20 July 1914, Page 5
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197YASS STATION TRAGEDY. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12292, 20 July 1914, Page 5
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