LIVERPOOL MURDER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 10

LIVERPOOL MURDER

SYDNEY’S GRIM TRAGEDY, STATEMENTS BY MOXLEY. STORY OF A BULLET INJURY. SYDNEY, May 11. One of the most tragic stories ever unfolded to a coroner was told at the inquiry last week into the brutal murder of the young girl Dorothy Ruth Denzel and her friend, Frank Wilkin-, son, on the night of April 5. Then came the thrilling story of the chase and capture of the accused man, William Cyril Moxley, and the statement that he made to the police. Moxley, in his statement, said he

had no intention of doing the two people any harm. Anything that happened was beyond his control. His only explanation was that his father was shot and died with a gun. Moxley said that when he was a boy ten years of age, through no fault of his own, his brother was killed in front of his eyes by him with a gun. For that offence ho was simply discharged at the Coroner’s Court. Ho firmly believed that what had happened was fated to happen, and that nothing could stop it. Some two years ago, said Moxley, he was shot through the head. He nearly lost his life for doing a service to the public and the police. The bullet nearly took his life and since then he had not been the same man. He had been unable to control his temper. He could only say that he had unconsciously done this thing. Ho suffered from pains in the head continuously and the only relief he could get was from aspirin, of which he had been in the habit of consuming boxes. Some time ago he was ordered to have another operation, but he did not. He went to the war and had a clean discharge after two years active service. In the course of a prior statement Moxley said: “1 will tell you al) 1 know about the murder. 1 know the man who done it and I will tell you his name. I know where he lives.’ The police told the coroner that every effort had been made to trace the man named by Moxley. So far they had not been able to establish definitely there was a man known by the name given. Detective Bowie corroborated the statement that two years ago Moxley was shot, the bullet entering his right oar. Two men were charged in connection with the affair, but were acquitted. Moxley was committed for trial on lhe charge of double murder.