MELBOURNE TRAGEDIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 5

MELBOURNE TRAGEDIES.

■ 'ALLEGED MURDER IN CITY . K-ptw GMCENSjo : ®y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. V , Melbourne, January 13. ./i-Ai -inquest, with respect to. the death ,'of Archibald : jSteanei'. who >yas., found dead' in tho Edinburgh Gardens,; North :Fitzroy; on New Year's Day, hasten • opened. ; I. Percy Fynch, who is charged with the murder, made a statement, ,to the effect ~ihat he, : with two girls, was crossing the gardens, when deceased asked for a jcigarett6, and then attempted to assault, one of the girls. . A fight'followed. De-ceased-produced a toy revolver, and ho (Fynbh) snatched it 'away and hit the deceased on the head; Deceased fell, ■ arid , witness ran away. Deceased Was wider the influence of drink. The girls corroborated Fynch's story, hut other witnesses declared that deceased was perfectly sober on the night of j the tragedy, ■ also that he was of a quiet temperament, and had never Bmoked. A medical witness was of opinion that 'death was tho result, of . a kick on tho head while deceased was prostratdj ; • The inquest was adioufnedj MOODIE POISONING CASES. , Melbourne, January 13. The body of Stephen Hoodie, father of.Olive Moodie, the girl who is awaiting triil on ,a charge of having murdered her-mother and sisters,' is to bo exhumed. Moodie died rather suddenly four years', ago.