Battered to Death.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 97, 17 April 1914, Page 5

Battered to Death.

THE ROSE BAY MURDER. ■ . COMMITTED IN FEBRUARY. B* Elbctrio Tblegbaph—Copyright] [United PnEPS AfWOOtATTOM.] (Received 10.5 a.m.) Sydney, April 17. A man has been arrested at Mudgee, charged with the murder of Dixon. Concerning the murder, the Sydney Daily Telegraph , of February 24 states:— Edward Dixon, a man who for sometime past has been camped at Rose Bay was brutally murdered on Saturday morning within a few yards of the open windows of the Rose Bay Convent. .■, q _■ r ; , ]V[ ■ The crime ,was a particularly callous one. The unfortunate victim was, apparently, dono to death as he lay on the ground asleep. "When discovered, he. was lying face downwards, with the side of his head smashed in. He was still alive, but died- on his way to the hospital. The scene of the tragedy is a quiet and pretty little spot, near Bay View ißoad, which runs down from South Road to the. water.'s edge, just along the western wing of the convent. The murdered man had been living in company with another man in the scrub. Except that Dixon comes from Orange,- little is known about either of them. Alfred Slater, a lamplighter, knew the victim to be a man who earned a few shillings occasionally by doing odd jobs. Slater saw the two men asleep, one on each side of a fireplace—where the body was afterwards found—at 20 minutes t 0.7 on Saturday morning. At a quarter to 9, Ruby'Kulmar, a girl of'l2, was passing the spot on her way to a friend's place, at the foot of Bay View Road, when she noticed a man lying groaning on the. ground, with blood streaming from his head. The little girl was terrified, and ran back into Great South Head Road for assistance. She came across Constable O'Reilly, and ho hurried to the spot. The man was unconscious when he arrived, and a heavy stick, covered at one end with blood, was lying a few feet away. The man was only clad in a shirt, and* he was partly covered by a sack, which he had apparently been using as a blanket. There were no signs of a struggle, and it is surmised that the first blow must have rendered him unconscious. The man's clothes were lying in a heap some distance away, and a threepenny piece was found on the ground near them. The murdered man was 26 years of age, and his companion a youth of 19. A reward of £2OO was offered by the police for information leading to the apprehension of the murderer.