WEST ADELAIDE TRAGEDY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 21, 25 September 1913, Page 5

WEST ADELAIDE TRAGEDY.

A WOMAN’S EVIDENCE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press (Association.] . , (Received 8.35 a.m.) Adelaide, September 25. At the inquest on Stephens'a woman testified that Stephens received a push but she was too drunk to recollect from whom. She had a faint idea of seeing a short man with a cap. She and deceased were engaged to he married. A verdict was rturned that .death was due to wounds on the head, but that there was no evidence to show how they were inflicted

Frederick Pennery Stephens (47), a laborer, was discovered shortly after midnight on Saturday, 13th inst., unconscious in a paddock at West Adelaide, with bis head battered in. A woman was discovered standing' near the dying man. Stephens expired before the police arrived. The woman said deceased was accompanying her to her home at Hilton when another man approached and spoke to her, and knocked Stephens down. People residing near heard two men’s voices, and later a woman speaking to one of them, but a black tracker could not find the traces of footmarks other than those of the woman and Stephens. The former was detained by the police.