GRUESOME FARES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 201, 20 May 1919, Page 5

GRUESOME FARES

TWO CORPSES IN MOTOR-CAES. Perth, May 1. A remarkable double tragedy was discovered in extraordinary circumstances early on Thursday morning. A motor driver named Weylandt drove up to the central police 'station with two corpses in his car. Death in each case wa? due to a bullet woifrtd in the temple. Weylandt stated 'he was engaged on Wedriesdav evening by Mr. A. E. Murray; of Cottesloe, to drive Miss Eva Downey, a barmaid, and other friends about the city. After dropping the other .'members of the party at their homes tho car proceeded at an early hour in the ■morning to Miss Downey's home in West Perth. Weylandt heard two reports, but attributed the noise to the machine backfiring. He waited for Murray and Miss Downey to alight, but as they did not Ret out he thought they were asleep, and he himself foil asleep. On waking Weylandt found that'his passengers were dead, and the bodies cold. ' Murray'was' a man of "'mature aee, married, and the father of . a family. He had been an hotel owner, at ICalgoorlio, and laterly he managed a station at Mur■fitison. He retired several months ago came to Perth. He left letters declaring his intention to commit suicide.