YOUTH KILLS MAN
FOR NO APPARENT REASON. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, December 17. Described as an inoffensive; decent citizen, William Henry Thomson, aged 30, a native of. Wellington,.New Zealand, when going home along a la rife at Campsie on December 6th, was .vigorously'attacked with a piece of gas pipe, 'and he eventually died from, a fractured skull. The police evidence at the inquiry to-day was that they arrested Leonard Grewcoek, aged 19, who made a statement admitting having killed Thomson, for no apparent reason* Grewcoek was under the influence of , drink, and something seemed to say to him: “Kill the At that very moment Thomson happened to pass by. The Coroner committed Grewcoek for trial on a. charge of murder •
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1930, Page 6
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120YOUTH KILLS MAN Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1930, Page 6
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