MURDERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 803, 28 April 1910, Page 7

MURDERS.

REGIMENT TRAGEDY IN INDIA. By TeleiTrauh —Press Association—Oopyrieht (Rec. April 27, 11.30 p.m.) Calcutta, April 27. Private James Coghlah, of the Royal Irish Fusiiiers, was accused of entering th'o dining-room at Ferozspote and shooting Sergeant Young (of the same regiment) dead.. Coghlan asked the Judge of the. Punjab Chief Court to hang, him, not to send him to (prison. He thanked the judge when the, death sentence was pronounced.

CHARGE ACAINBT DR. HYDE. CHEMIST SWALLOWS DRTJG. New York, April 26. The trial of Dr. Hyde for the alleged murder of Colonel Thomas Swope, a millionaire philanthropist, is proceeding at Kansas City. : Gentry,/; an apothecary; proved that Colonel'Swopo had been in the habit, of taking .drugs- containing strychnine.

Cross-examined regarding one such mixture, Gentry caused a .sensation bj uiicorking the bottle and swallowing d [ibrtiori of. the contents.': -V. ' Counsel for the defence'' protested against siich an exhibition, but Gentry replied that'ho had. swallowed the drug because ho sultered from palpitation if the heart. • : ...

REMARKABLE'EVIDENCE. (Itec. April 23, 0,40 a.m.) •!••• New York, April 27. Miss Margaret Swope, sister ,'of Mrs. Hyde, testified that Dr. Hyde gave her hypodermic injections, producing ' convulsions.' . Miss Gordon, a nurse, testified that Dr. Hyde used dirty water in giving injections to' Chrisinan Swope, who died. The late Dr. Twyman, who attended the Swope family after ; Dr. Hyde's dismissal, ordered the burning of all, the medicines that Dr. Hyde prescribed for Margaret Swope.. ... ; The testimony if, Luck Swope showed that Dr. Hyde gave Luck bitter water, producing; typhoid fever a week later.

WILLOUGHBY HORROR. THE INQUEST. • (Rec. April 27, 9.50 p.m.) Sydney, April 27. The inquest has.opened on the body of the, eight-year-old girl. Phillips, so brutally murdered at Willoughby. Strong public interest is evinced in the case. ; , ' , / The girl's father stands charged with the murder. The body was found, covered with earth, in somo dense scrub' not far from her home. \ ' The evidence, Bhowed that the Phillips family lived -in great poverty and misery. On the night when the child was killed the children went to bed foodless. - r The medical evidence showed that the murdered girl (whose pet name' was Wickio)Vwas probably rendered unconscious by a blow, , and then the jugular vein was severed. The doctor detailed other horrifying injuries. ! One witness heard a three-year-old sister of the . deceased prattling to herself: "Poor Wickie! Daddie beat Wickie with a bottle." The child was asked where Wickie was,; and . replied: "Daddie take her up the bush." The inquest was adjourned.