AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDIES
ALLEGED INCENDIARIST CHARGED WITH MURDER. CBy Cable.—Prees Association—Copyright.) (Received January 23th, 9.45 p.m.) BRISBANE, January 23. Mrs Nightingale, not Martindale, was remanded on a charge of murdering tho three victims of tho Taringa fire. She protested her innocence, and called the arresting constable a liar for saying sho had told him something. Sho declared that she escaped from tho fire by sliding down a rail. Accnsed declaimed against tho Salvation Army, saying that she would rather do six months in prison than in an Army home, which was worso than prison. If they wero to get half-a-dozen rat-traps and kill some rats they would be doing some good. WOMAN BATTERED TO DEATH. HUSBAND CHARGED WITH MURDER. (Received January 28th, 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 28. A tragedy is reported from Waverley. A boy named Mullan, on entering his parents' room, discovered his mother in bed with her head frightfully battered and her nose and one ear cut off. Sho was still alive, but died in tho hospital. Tho father, James Mullan, was missing. Somo hours later the proprietor of Oylio's Baths, Coogee, saw Mullan, fully clothed, jump from the rocks into the sea Ho plunged in to the rescue. Mullan, who was raving about killing his wife, struggled desperately, and it was twenty minutes before his rescuer managed to get him to shore. Mullan was taken to the Police Station in a bad way, but recovered. The cause of tho tragedy is a mystory, for Mullan and his wife and five children lived happily. Mullan suffered from heart trouble, and was under medical treatment. It is presumed that in a fit of dementia he attacked his sleeping wife. Mullan was charged with murder and remanded.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 7
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286AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDIES Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 7
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