A SYDNEY MURDER
SENSATIONAL INQUEST,
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, March 17. The inquest into the death of Alex-
ander Barrie aged eighty-five, at Paddington, on December 14th, took a sensational turn to-day. Leslie Skeen, a police witness, turn :d King’s evidence. He confessed he was associated with William Morton, .who was arrested on the 9th of Mafi’ch.
The latter hit Barrie on the head with a revolver several times and also struck Barrie’s wife with a loaded hosepipe and then gagged her. He (Skeen) merely held her while she was tied with a rope. Morton stole what money he could find. He examined Barrie and remarked: “The old is dead.’ Skeen said he removed the gag from the old lady’s mouth before lie quitted or otherwise she might have died.
The Coroner committed Morton and Skeeh for trial on die charge of jnurdor,
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1932, Page 5
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143A SYDNEY MURDER Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1932, Page 5
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