GOLDFIELDS MURDER.
VERDICT OF GUILTY.
DEATH SENTENCE RECORDED.
PERTH, September 15
The trial of William Coulter and Philip Trefferne on a, charge of having murdered Detective-Inspector Walsh was concluded to-day. Both accused were found guilty and were sentenced to death.
Detective-Inspector Walsh and Sergeant Pitman left Perth on April 28 td make investigations into reported gold stealing some miles from Kalgoorlie. Both men were employed in the department which handles gold stealing cases and in which the utmost secrecy is observed, so tha ; t no dne knew their actual destination. The next heard of them was when their dismembered bodies were discovered at the bottom of an abandoned mining shaft 60ft deqp near the Coolgardie • Road some we e .k§ later. Subsequently Philip Trefferne, William A. Coulter, and Evan Clarke were arrested far the murder, Cla.rke turning King’s evidence.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5028, 17 September 1926, Page 2
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139GOLDFIELDS MURDER. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5028, 17 September 1926, Page 2
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