CALLOUS MURDER
SENSATIONAL STORY OF POLICE WITNESS. Press a550.i....-,.! Electric To.~gid.pn— Copyright SYDNEY, Thursday. The inquest into the ueatli of Alexander Barrie, aged 85, at Paddington, on 1-ith December, took a ..sensational turn to-day. Leslie Skeen, a, police witness, turned King’s Evidence and confessed that he was associated with William Morton, recently arrested, when the latter hit Barrie on the head with a revolver several times, and also struck Barrie’s wife with a. loaded hose-pipe and then gagged her. Skeen said lie merely held her while she was tied with a rope. Morton stole what money he could find. Hen then examined Barrie and remarked: “The old is dead.” Skeen said he removed the gag from the old lady’s mouth before he quitted; otherwise she might have died. The Coroner committed Morton and Skeen for trial on a charge of murder.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 March 1932, Page 5
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