TRAWOOL TRAGEDY

Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 44

TRAWOOL TRAGEDY

Oldring has been committed for triai on a charge of murdering Mrs Taylor and her daughter at Trawool, Victoria. The police produced a statement showing that the accused had admitted that in the name of Blunderfield he had served twi long sentences in Westralia, where he broke out of gaol. He and Mrs Taylor passed as man and wife. He drove her and her daughter to Trawool on the night of the tragedy, but remembered nothing that happened afterwards. He suffered from pains in the head and loss of memory as the result of a previous accident.

Arthur Geoffrey Oldring, who is charged with the murder of Mrs Margaret Taylor and her daughter Boaie at Trawool, described as a man of great mental power, and, to judge by his conversation,_ has made a wide study of history and political economy. Quoting freely and accurately from many authorities, he kept the "detectives interested throughout the journey to Melbourne. Ho proved that he had a remarkable memory' for dates, and seldom "paused in his narratives of the lives of great rulers and the incidents and effects of past wars. He has made a close study of the Bible.