CONFESSES TO MURDER OF YOUNG WAITRESS.
MACPHERSON SAYS HE HAD BEEN DRINKING HEAVILY BEFORE DEED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Julv 21. 9.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 21. The reported confession of MacPherson, who is charged with the murder of Martha Quin, states that he had been drinking heavily for five weeks prior to the tragedy. He seemed mad and did not realise what he had done. When realisation did come to him through reading the newspaper reports of Quin’s death, he decided to return to Sydney and clear the rmttcr up.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18187, 21 June 1927, Page 1
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