NORTH SYDNEY MURDER.
SUSPECTED MAN ESCAPES. FORMER TE AWAMUTU RESIDENT The Sydney police have issued a warrant for the apprehension of Wilfrid Ernest Coley, on a charge of having murdered Gertrude McGrath at a house in Walker Street, North Sydney, on December 24. The following description of Coley has been supplied and issued throughout the State by the police:—‘Age 26 to 30, sft lOin high, medium to thin build, fresh complexioned, and blue-eyed. There is a slight shrapnel scar on the right side of the chin. He has brown hair.” The police say also that Coley is a native of Sussex, England, and that he was, for a long time, domiciled in New Zealand. He left New Zealand for active service as a gunner attached to the fourth reinforcements of the Field Artillery on April 17, 1915, and served subsequently in Egypt' and the Balkan States. He was on active service in Western Europe in the years 1916, 1917 and 1918. He was discharged in 1918. Before enlisting Coley was a warder at the Waikeria Prison Farm, near Te Awamutu, New Zealand.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 604, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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