TRAWOOL MURDERER EXECUTED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 178, 17 April 1918, Page 5

TRAWOOL MURDERER EXECUTED

END OF A CAREER OP CRIME. . Melbourne, April 16. Arthur Geoffrey Oldring, a machinegunner in tho A.1.F., who was found guilty of the murder at Trawool of Marfiaret Taylor and her daughter, Rose Taylor, on or about November 11, was executed this morning.—Press Assn. fin the course of the trial (says a Melbourne papor) the murderor admitted that he was a fugitive from justice in Western Australia, and tho iccords of that Stale show that his true name is not Oldring. but George Farrow Blunderfield, and that, he had twice been convicted of very serious offences. On October 30, 1899, ho was convicted at Kalgoorlio on a charge of being in unlawful , possession, of a bicycle, and fined J5, with tho alternative of three months' imprisonment. Five months later, nt Perth, on March G, 1900, ho received a 6ontonco of twelvo years' imprisonment for a criminal assault on a little girl. He was released on probation after serving about six years of this sentence, and again convicted at Perth on December 7, MO9, on a charge of attempting to kill Charles J. Efford, postmaster at Hopetoun, Western Australia. A charge of having wounded Mrs. Efford, with intent to murder her, was not proceeded with. Ho was confined «t Rottnost Prison, whero ho caused a fire in the prison on April 5, 1914, nnd made'his cscapo in the commotion that arose. Hβ afterwards apparently succeeded in getting away to the eastern States, and enlisted when in South Australia.]