THE TALLAROOK TRAGEDY
VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER. (Received Thursday, 10.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A verdict of not guilty of murder, but of manslaughter, was recorded against Charles Jeffrey Jones, charged with the murder of James Albert Ross. Jones, in a statement, is alleged to have said that he fought with Ross and then shot him, after which he bound the body and threw it into a creek. Jones was remanded for sentence.
A message published on loth January stated that James Albert Ross, aged 23, a labourer, for whom 70 residents and police had been searching since his disappearance from Tallarook on Friday, was found dead in a creek with a bullet wound behind his right ear, his legs and arms bound, and a rock tied to his wrists. Following the recovery of the body of Ross, Charles Jeffrey Jones, aged 24, a relative of Ross, was remanded at the Seymour Court on a charge of murder.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 February 1935, Page 5
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