THE STOTT TRAGEDY.
THE MURDERER MANGLED BY A RAILWAY TRAIN. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 12,15 a.m., May 20. Sfol.i.’s body was found on the railway at .Jolimont to-niglit. II Was terribly mangled. lie had evidently sioiid in f ron I of an approaching 1 ij ii. The body had been carried bap a mile from Ihe spol where il. si i nek. The elothes were in alillhy eoi.di 1 ion. He had apparently been telling in sewers since the tragedy, 't'lie only feasible explanation oi the tragedy is that Stott was desperate at ihe loss of employment and owing to financial troubles.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 903, 29 May 1903, Page 3
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