STRYMANS MURDER
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, September 28. The State Cabinet commuted the death sentence passed on Maurice Strymans to imprisonment for life. Maurice Strymans, a Belgian sea captain, entered the Darlington Police Station on July 12, and informed the police that he had just shot a woman. The police hurried to the address ho gave, and found the body of a young woman, named Ruth Clarkson, in an expensively furnished flat, with revolver bullet wounds in her head. Apparently she had just been shot, as a phonograph in the room was still playing. Later Strymans was charged with murder, and found guilty.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19907, 29 September 1926, Page 7
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