PERTH MURDER CASE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1053, 16 February 1911, Page 5

PERTH MURDER CASE.

; :V- iSMAKrS TKUL: BEGINS. "By ABBoclitlon-Oopyrlibl. l&te. .February Iβ, 1.6 a.m.), . ■.si.u.-'. .-•. --Pe.rthi February 15. The ,of Alfred Smart for the murdej, - "of Ethel Harris, with whom he had for. five oiveis years prior to March l.Mt,' vhen. she disappeared, began to-day. The body was found some time.ago buried under a./'ehoein'g 1 forge at HoskinS ..' and Cty.'s fonndryat \yest Perth, where Smart .■wasuetDployed , "as b <iart«r. ; ■ .' 'V The' medical evidence, was to the, effect tlJat the bddy.'had-been buried before rigor mortis occurred;', There was Hnman blood'and hair.dn the iron , 'bar exhumed.- ], P thjm, j jtnfsses. that oart tracks near the .sanitary depot corresponded to tHose if Smart's'cart, which was an un-ttiukl'one.-v; j;.. , ;:'];.'. .':\- : "'..■ -V .' ?The manager of the' foundry said Smart tfae absent-on March'l4 and 15 last. He eon&piained of sickness, • but attended to' Us hor'seT'_- ; ■;''■ '■' - '■•■■,. .■'■-■,: ■■;'.• . ■ ■•■! 'X blacksmith/said h« eiw Smart spreading- ashes in. the shed where the body was bHriejJ, why. he did. not UWi<he astii* Sfflart' replied that, the' authorities Bid iSot'allOw'.this." Thie.wa's contrary to fact, Bi'"th»caolh6'.rUiee were anxious" to 'get f3ch';materiai.' iV'r' : -.-.,.-.'..,' ;.'.V : 'j"i".';',j .'Thft further hearing of the cise was adJpurnW...'..;..". '''•' ,-.'..'; ,'■' ,'•■' ' ■'