THE TIRTSCHKE MURDER
SYDNEY HANDING'S EVIDENCE. CIRCUMSTANTIAL DETAILS. f Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, January 27. Sydney Harding (the prisoner whom Rosa told that he had outraged the girl), in his evidence, said that Ross told him that he took the girl into hia private room behind the bar. He gave her three glasses of wine. She went to sleep. When she woke she started to moan and cry. He tried to pacify her. Then he lost his head, and choked her. He washed the bar to destroy all traces, and returned late at night and took the body to where it was found, meantime arranging his movements so as to throw off suspicion. He added that if he was acquitted he was going for heavy compensation, but if convicted ho must get hold of some cyanide.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18465, 28 January 1922, Page 10
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136THE TIRTSCHKE MURDER Otago Daily Times, Issue 18465, 28 January 1922, Page 10
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