Mysterious Disappearance.
1 INTENDED SCfGIDE. STARTLING DISCLOSURES. (Per Press Association! Sydney, This Day. A builder named Frederick Willis, of Emnore, mysteriously disappeared from his home, and left a note stating he was going to Newcastle and intended to commit suicide by throwing himself from the steamer, as he could bear his troubles no longer. Next day the "wife received a letter through the Newcastle police in which Willis stated that in Jauuary last he had thrown a Mrs Hughes downstairs in a fit of temper and killed her, and at the inquest a verdict of accideutal death was returned. After this death the husband of Mrs Hughes had taken the Willis's to live with him, and in return for kindnesses hart willed a terrace of houses he possessed to Willis. Since the death of Mrs Hughes, Willis was unsettled _in manner. No trace can be found of him, and a warrant has been issued.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 210, 9 March 1896, Page 2
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154Mysterious Disappearance. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 210, 9 March 1896, Page 2
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