TRAGEDY IN A WASH-HOUSE
BARMAID DEAD; MAN INJURED. BOTH HAVE THROATS GASHED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 1,5 A p.m. Sydney, Sept. 1. A sordid tragedy was discovered today in a tumbledown wash-house in Underwood Street, Paddington suburb, when the dead body of Hilda Miller, aged 20 years, an attractive barmaid, was found with the throat slashed. Lying nearby was Aubrey Chapman, aged 33, a carpenter, whose throat was also slashed. He, however, is not dead, but is unable to give a coherent account of what ’ appened. The police liu.c ucvii miormed that Chapman is married.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1928, Page 8
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