PETERSHAM MURDER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19476, 11 May 1925, Page 11

PETERSHAM MURDER

M’INNES’S APPEAL DISMISSED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, May 9. The Appeal Court has dismissed the appeal of MTnnes. On September 20 last a shooting tragedy took place outside the Carrington Hotel, at Petersham (Sydney), as a result of which Winifred Eoley, a barmaid of that establishment, was shot dead, and Alfred MTnnes, a railway fireman, was seriously wounded with another bullet. It was alleged by the police that Miss Foley walked to the station on the afternoon of the tragedy and told the officer in charge that a man was paying her attention, which she resented. She asked for police protection, and two sergeants promised to go to the hotel with her. She, however, left a few minutes before them, and walked back by a different street to that taken by the officials. She was intercepted at the corner of the street by MTnnes, and walked with him to the overhead bridge at the railway station, and from there to Terminus street. In the meantime the police had reached the hotel, and were speaking to the licensee, when shots were bred outside the building. The police found Miss Foley lying dead on the pavement with a bullet in each breast. About a yard away, propped up against the wall, they saw MTnnes with a bullet wound in the right temple. A .22-calibre revolver was at his feet. At the first trial of MTnnes on a charge of murder the jury failed to agree, and a new trial was ordered, at which MTnnes was convicted And sentenced to death.