AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2771, 15 May 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

/ ; ;• ■ . .-*■, . — TEN YEARS FOR WIFE MURDER. SENTENCE IN CROWLEY CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ... , ,' ■ , Melbourne, May 13. . _Michael Crowley, who killed his wife on March.. U, has been, sentenced to ten • years' imprisonment. [The woman's skull was fractured by a blow from a poker. Her husband, Michael Crowley,' while under arrest,' atempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. The wound, however, was not serious. Crowley told the proprietress of the lodging-house that he hit his wife, and that she fell down. The man, it was said, had been drinking considerably for some days before the tragedy.] VICE IN SYDNEY. DISCUSSION IN PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. Sydney, May 13. Speaking in the Presbyterian Assembly, the Rev;, Mr: Brandt the increase of vice in Sydney. The wickedness was largely due to the Sunday papers serving up Saturday's passion for sport. He urged the abolition of the Sunday papers. \ ■ THE KATOOMBA TRAGEDY. VERDICT OF SUICIDE. (Rec. May U, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, May 13. •At the inquiry concerning the Katoomba tragedy, the husband stated that his wife and daughter had been travelling for three years in search of health. At , though he had not seen either for a yoar, he had corresponded regularly . with them. \ A verdict of suicide was returned. . [The particulars of the Katoomba tragedy are as follows;—On April 19, Mrs. Hallett and her daughter, aged 18, who belonged to Victoria, and were visiting Katoomba, were found dead in a.rented cottage. Their belongings included three bottles which had contained poison. Instructions were found for the disposal of their personal property. The mother had apparently been dead five days, and the daughter threo days!] HEAVY DAMAGES IN LIBEL CASE.' (Rec. May 14, 5.5 p.m.) '■ . . Brisbane, May 13. Doctor Henry Ellerton, Inspector of Asylums, has been awarded .£3325 damages against John Wren, for alleged libel published in the "Daily Mail" rcgardini; asylum administration.