STREET MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1929, Page 5

STREET MURDER

HUSBAND’S CRIME. fAhetralian Press Association) SYDNEY, March 1. Hazel Sly, aged 26, a marred woman, was murderously attacked with a razor in a street in Five Dock, a Sydney suburb, this afternoon, and her throat was gashed from ear to ear. Her condition is critical. A man ran away from the scene and then attempted to. commit suicide, cutting his wrist and his throat and then plunging into the Parramatta River. The police brought the man out of the water, which was only waist deep. He gave the name of Frederick Sly. and he admitted that he was the woman’s husband. He was charged with attempting to murder his wife anu with attempting to commit suicide. His wife wrote a note saying tha f she had taken a maintenance order out against her husband, who was unemployed. AN ILL-FATED PAIR. SYDNEY, March 1. Lance Rowley, who was killed in a motor car accident to-day, was a brother o'f the girl Nola Rowley, who was killed on New Year’s Eve when she fell 200 feet over Echo Point, at • Katoomba, on the Blue Mountains. \ THE WOMAN DTES. SYDNEY. March 1. , Mrs Sly died while awaiting an ambulance. Her husband is now charged with murder. An eye witness of the tragedy Charles Debenham, who was working in his garden, saw the whole thing, and he pursued the attacker, calling on him to stop and shouting to other pedestrians to block the running man. but they were loth to interfere, seeing the razor in the fugitive’s hand.