AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDIES.
HOW CHINESE DISPOSED OFi HIS
WIFE.,
(Received Aug. 12, 11 a.m.) PERTH, this day.An inquest has;opened at, Fremantle into the death of Ruby Yen. The police gave evidence that the woman’s husband, Leong Yen, signed a statement • setting out that his wife wished' to return .. home.' He seized 1 her to prevent her dC parture. She fought him and he hit her. She fell dead. He put the body in a bag and later hired 1 a motor car an* - was taken to Fremantle, where Jie dropped the body into the.river from the.railway bridge. The inquest was adjourned^-
CONVICTED MAN'S APPEAL.
SYDNEY, Aug.' 11.” Avos, who was convicted of murder, is appealing to the High .Court in Now South Wales for leave to. appeal against the judgment of the Appeal Court. . •
Cecil Henry Riby Avcs was convicted on a charge of having murdered Florence May Quirk, who was found with wounds on her head caused by a tomahawk, in her home at Dougin's street, Rcdfern, on March 12. ’She died in Sydney Hospital the same day.
BACCHUS MARSH AFFAIR.'V . ,
SYDNEY, Aug, 18. Ferguson was charged with the' murder of Smith at Bacchus Marsh (where two others were wounded and was remanded until August 19. - . ~.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16806, 12 August 1925, Page 7
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