AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1926, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

\ Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] A WOMAN MURDERED. MELBOURNE, Sept. 2. Mrs Margaret Curry, aged 32 years, was found dead in her home with her throat cut. There was a razor some distance from the body. There were signs of a severe struggle. The body was on a bed, and the razor sis feet away. The discovery of the tragedy was made by the deceased’s, child, aged three years, whom a lodger in the house found crying outside after it had found its mother’s body. A SYDNEY MURDER. SYDNEY, September 2. Strymans, the Belgian sea captain, who surrendered to the police, and confessed to the police that he had shot dead a. young, woman with whom he toad been living in Darlingburst, was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to death. KALGOORLIE MURDER. FURTHER EVIDENCE. PERTH, Sept, 3. At the Kalgoorlie murder trial, Coulter in the witness box, said he was in Kalgoorlie all the day that Treffene said he shot the detectives. About five o’clock in the afternoon he drove to the hotel and saw Treffene and Clarke, and was told by the latter that accused had‘ shot the detectives. Ho asked him at what hour, and witness said he had better tell the police, hut Clarke would not. He asked witness to help him dispose of the bodies by throwing them down a shaft. Witness refused to have anything to do with such proceedings. He never at any time went to the bush in connection with the disposal of the bodies.