KALGOORLIE MURDER.
DEATH OF DETECTIVES. STARTLING EVIDENCE GIVEN. PERTH, July 7. Giving evidence at the inquest in connection with the deaths of Detectives Pitman and Walsh, at Kalgoorlie, Mrs. Clarke, wife, of one of the accused,"said on April 27 both Coulter and Treffene used her husband’s car, but her husband was at home when the two departed for the bush. Later her husband told her that Treffene and Coulter told him that Pitman and Walsh had come upon them and that they shot the detectives. Treffene later came back to the hotel. Later Clarke said he was going to the bush with Coulter that night, and asked witness to give him a carving knife. She asked him not to go, but he replied he was going as company for Coulter. She then gave him a carving knijfe. Mrs. Clarke added that she and her husband and Treffene were partners in gold trafficking, and she had seen Treffene buying gold from the men employed in the mines.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17080, 8 July 1926, Page 7
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166KALGOORLIE MURDER. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17080, 8 July 1926, Page 7
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