MURDER OF GRAZIER
THE CORONER’S FINDING THREE BROTHERS FOR TRIAL (Received Nov. 9, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 9. At the inquest on Ronald Leslie, who was found shot on October 13, the Coroner committed William Higgs for trial on a charge of murder, and the two brothers, Hubert and Bruce Higgs, on charges of aiding and abetting. Bail was refused. Ronald Lachlan Leslie, grazier, a man of menus, left his home in Manly bv motor car alone to visit one o( his country properties at S o’clock in tho morning. On the same evening the ear was found standing on the road off’ the main western road near Blaxland.' Leslie was found inside dead with three bullet wounds in his chest. He had apparently been dead some time. Subsequently the three Higgs brothers were arrested and charged with the crime.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16492, 9 November 1927, Page 7
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