THE DUNGOG MURDER.
ALLEGED MURDERER IN GERMANY. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. By TeleEraph—Press Aurciation—Copyright Sydney, November 15. The Government has received information from Germany that Wilhelm Gerlach, arrested by tho German authorities at Port Said on a charge of murdering tho man Coleman at Dungog, New South. Wales, on November 19, has boon committed for trial.
Tho chargo was reduced to ono of manslaughter, becauso thero was no evidence to show that tho crimo had been premeditated.
Delay was caused by Gerlach's solicitor lodging a plea of insanity, which made it necessary for tho prisoner to bo lodged in a hospital for tho insane and undergo a mental examination.
THE GLEBE TRAGEDY. , Sydney, November 15. The police and other experts pre satisfied that the letter to Mr. Trevascus making jm appointment for the night before the murder was written by a foreigner. MURDERER DECLARED INSANE. London, November H. At the Staffordshire Assizes, Karl Karmer, the German who was charged with the murder, at Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, of Mrs. Weir, widow of a colliery manager, her daughter (aged four), and a servant girl, was found to bo insane.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 16 November 1911, Page 7
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185THE DUNGOG MURDER. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 16 November 1911, Page 7
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