BROTHERS QUARREL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16606, 9 December 1924, Page 11

BROTHERS QUARREL.

FIGHT IN DARKNESS

ONE MAN FOUND DEAD. J

HOMFJBUSH TRAGEDY

SYDNEY, Nov. 2b\—A shoekb/ng tragedy was enacted in a weatherboard cntia.gr- in George street, Hoiiif-linish, last weekend, two brothers being concerned. One is dead, having been mightfully cut about the. body with a knife, while the. other is charged in conneckiou w ith the killing. V The brothers Wright— Frederick, ',42, and William, 50 —were well-known 1 in. the Homebush district, both being builder's laborers, and believed to bejon excellent terms with each other. i Both men. had lived in the cottage with their mother for 20 years. She rifled about, twelve months ago, and since tynat time they have been doing their <jiwn housekeeping. j According to the story the police vrere able to get from Mr T. A. Roche, tjheir next-door neighbor, the brothers aiy alleged to have been hot-tempered, and to have had frequent quarrels, Ihintigh afterwards they would be on Hie. hfsl of terms again. (Jporge street, Homebush, is unljghled by gas. and the residents rely on candles and kerosene lamps. Always wh-eii the Wright, brothers quarrelled, then' home was in darkness, was Ihe storv told in the police,

On Friday at 9 p.m. Mr Rot ihe heard the sound of quarrelling and \veiil. into the yard. Thinking it was oytly one of the n.sual disagreements which would be swiftly settled, he took no furl her notice and returned lo his own home, A for.- minutes later, 'he told the. police, William Wright come into his Ii i' ami boi rowed a. iViati h, asking him lo i;ili a doctor, as his brother was

Roche followed Wright back to Ihe cottage, ami alleges that ho found him, u iih a lighted caudle in his, hand, looking down at tho blood-drenched body of Frederick. Wright, which lay on the Hour of the kitchen in a pool of blood. The body was. fearfully gashed about the stomach with a (able knife, which lay nearby, and i| was apparent that if ho was not 'lead, death was not far away. Hot-he hastened to telophonet Hie ambulance and the police, both bodies arriving simultaneously. Frederick Wright was hurried to hospital, where life wa.s pronounced extinct. After taking a statement from William Wright, in which it is alleged he admits that a. quarrel occurred, the police look him, to the station and charged him*, 711 connection with the death of his brother.