THE COMMONWEALTH
~^—♦_, -^ MURDERED EST BED. . % (Australian and N.Z. Cable AssnO Received 10.45 p.m , Apr.l 2nd. SYDNEY, April 2. A shocking outrage was discovered 'in a boarding house at Katoomba. George King, a prominent Melbourne commercial man, was found in bed, gagged, and his skull battered, presumably with a hammer. The walls and, furniture • were splashed with blood., Herbert Shaw, a youth of nineteen, has been arrested in Sydney in connection with the outrage.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16235, 3 April 1917, Page 7
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73THE COMMONWEALTH Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16235, 3 April 1917, Page 7
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