HAD TO KILL SOMEONE.
MUKDEEESS'S EXTEAOEDLNAY STORY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. v (Rec. June 29, 9.15 p.m.) Sydney, June 29. Extraordinary evidence was givon at tho inquest touching tho death of the schoolgirl May Williams, generally known among her acquaintances as May Ragison, a girl of 11 years, who was done to death last week by Elizabeth Quartly, a spinster, aged 05. The woman, it will be recollected, went to tho police station and confessed to having, murdered the child when she came to pay the rent for her stop-father. Tho medical officer at the police reception house deposed that Miss Quartly told him she had had many intimations from the devil that she must kill somebody to redeem tho world. Up to the day of the murder she had resisted (liem. Sho then had to do it, though she would be punished for what sho now knew to bo wrong. But the evil spirit still talked to her, saying that her work was not yet finished. Tho woman told the superintendent at Hie reception house that she thought she ought to kill another patient there. The doctor declared her to be hopelessly insane.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 5
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193HAD TO KILL SOMEONE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 5
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