WEST AUSTRALIAN MURDER
THE.DEATH SENTENCE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PERTH, October 11. Walter Surrard has been sentenced to death for the murder of his wife last August. The circumstances were that when talking to his wife in Ciaremont Park Surrard suddenly pulled out a razor, cut her throat with fatal results, and cut his own severely. Ho declared that he got the razor by chance, and that, while entering the park, he was pleading with his wife to return to him. She refused, and admitted that she was carrying on with another man. Surrard says he then went mad, and did not know what happened subsequently.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15893, 13 October 1913, Page 5
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105WEST AUSTRALIAN MURDER Otago Daily Times, Issue 15893, 13 October 1913, Page 5
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