MOXEY MURDER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 June 1928, Page 5

MOXEY MURDER.

A DRAMATIC TURN. AT CORONER’S INQUEST. Press Association -Electric Telegraph--Copy righ (Received Friday, 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A dramatic turn has occurred in the Moxey shooting case. At the inquest before the Newcastle coroner, Jackson’s two statements were tendered.

In the first statement, Jack-son declared that Dent, the other accused, had urged and commanded him' (Jackson) to murder Moxey. In the second statement Jackson exculpated Dent, and declared that Mrs Moxey had offered him (Jackson) £SO to "do away with Dick.” Jackson added that he did not like to do this. She then

threatened to put the police on him for running away from his employment. Finally, after a lot of persuasion, he agreed, and shot and killed Moxey on June loth, while the latter was attending to his wireless set in

his own home at Williamstown. Detective Ryan submitted two statements made by Dent, who declared that he knew nothing about the murder till he read about it in a newspaper. In the second statement Dent stated that Moxey was always jealous of his wife’s attentions to Dent. On one occasion Dent overheard a quarrel in which Moxey threatened to shoot him. Detective Ryan added that Jackson slated that Dent once wanted Jackson to take Moxey fishing and then push him over the cliff. Jackson declined. Dent remarked that he would get a crook from Sydney to do the job. / Mrs Moxey, in her evidence, said that she was friendly with Dent, who kissed her when dissolving the partnership with her husband. She was occasionally alone with Dent while her husband wa-s at the beach. She denied complicity in the murder of her husband. The Coroner warned Mrs Moxey that she was not bound to answer questions likely to incriminate her. .Mrs-Moxey admitted that she had corresponded with Dent since lie left her husband’s employment in March last. Her husband saw the letters and would then destroy them. The inquest was adjourned. —Australian and N.Z. Press Association.

(A Newcastle cable stated on June 16th that a mysterious murder had occurred near Stockton. Richard Moxey

(34) was shot dead while adjusting his radio set. The murderer fired through the window in the darkness and then decamped. The motive has not been disclosed. Moxey’s wife and a youth named Arthur Fullerton were in. the room when the murder occurred. The police later arrested a man named Jaekscn.)