NAVAL DESERTER'S STRANGE STORY.
CONFESSION OF' MURDER,
$y Telegraph-Press Asso'ciation-Oopyrieht ':'.-;, Sydney,; July 16. A deserter from H.M.S. Drake, who was recaptured and sentenced to a term of detention prior to being handed over to v'the Naval authorities, mado a statement that he and another man were concerned 1 in the murder of : th© Jew Leon Beron, at Clapham Common, on January 1, 1911, and that Stinie Morrison, .who is under-' going. sentenco for the crime, is hot 1 guilty. , .-.-'! ".. The.auth6rities : attach little importance to the confession.; .They consider the man is 'seeking, oheap notoriety, as he' was serving in the Homo Fleet at .'the 1 time of . the tragedy. ■ ■;.■'_■
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 7
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109NAVAL DESERTER'S STRANGE STORY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 7
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