WOMAN’S CONFESSION.
STARTLING DEVELOPMENT IN MURDER CASE (Received Friday, 9.30 pun.) MELBOURNE, March 15. A startling development has ceuirwi in the Wilson murder case at Walhalla. The deceased’s housekeeper, Annie Hillard, egaed 38, has signed a confession declaring that she shot Wilson whose son agreed to take the blame. She planned with the son to kill his father, with whom she was living, in order that she might marry his son. It was arranged to cause an argument with his father, but the fataher declined to become argumentive. Hillard then called him up a dark passage and phot him dead with the son’s gun. Hillard is now charged with the murder.— (Australian Press Association.) (A previous cable stated that David Wilson, 65, a pensioner at Walhalla, Victoria, was shot dead, and George Wilson, aged 23, his son, wat charged with murdering his father. The police state that the father was attacking tie hons’keoper when the tragedy occurred.)
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Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1929, Page 5
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