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SON'S HEROIC FIGHT

To Save Mother From Murderer

(From /N.Z. Truth's" Melbourne Representative)

Once again the age-old reason, jealousy and a love that is scorned, is said to be at the bottom of a particularly "dastardly % murder m Victoria. According to police reports, Thomas Bacon, a married man living apart from his wife, 'had been pestering Mrs. Daisy Ledger, an attractive Widow, who is the owner of considerable property m East Melbourne, to marry him. Some days ago Mrs. Ledger told him that she did not wish to have anything further to do with him.

SHORTLY after seven o'clock on a recent niorning, while Mrs. Ledger A lay sleeping, Bacon, it is alleged, entered her fiat through a window which faces on to. Grey Street, .East Melbourne, and opens into a sittingroom. After removing his shoes he crept into her* bedroom armed with a carv-ing-knife sharpened to a razor edge. Ai murderous attack , followed. Whether Mrs. Ledger awakened and recognized her assailant is not known, for she died iri' the ambulance on her way to the Melbourne Hospital without making a statement,, and she was unconscious when assistance arrived. As Mrs. I_ed ger fell from her bed to the floor, her life 7 blood gushing from a, wound m her throat, her son, Clarence, a stripling of 16, rushed into the room, and the fight he put up m defence of his' mother" is a most remarkable instance of heroism. The story told by Clarence wasTthat he was awakened early In the morning muffled sounds from his mother's' room and he .ran along to her room to investigate them." The sight that met his horrified gaze was a man standing over his mother with a bloo.d-dripping knife. The lad rushed at. his mother's asr sailant and a violent struggle ensued. The man. strove to throw him off, but Clarence pushed his hands into Bacon's throat and forced him to the floor where, seizing an ornament that

lay handy, he struck him heavily on the head. Relinquishing his hold oh the man he rushed across the room to' his mother's . side, and the murderer fled through ? the sitting-room and out through the window. .-•' Seeing that medical assistance was necessary, Clarence rang up the police and then, clad only m his pyjamas, he .mounted a bicycle and tore oft! for the dpctdr. When Dr. arrived there was little that could be done, andMrs. Ledger died while being hurried to hospital. In the meantime the police had arrived and a search was commenced for the murderer. A knife was found; in' the yard at the back of the flats aiid there was a man's hat m Mrs.. Ledger's sitting-r00m... ' After some time a message was received that a man, with wounds m his throat and on. his-bleft . wrist,, was wandering about at the .-'-.': rear of a guestrhouse m Claren,d,on Street. . ■■ - bb/ ywhen tbe police reachedthe scene they found it /was Bacon, who -js a switch operator at the Richmond depot of the Melbourne Electric Light Company. ':'■'■■ He was arrested and taken 'to the Melbourne Hospital, where he now lies under police guard. A statement was obtained from him by detectives.: Mrs. Ledger owned the flats m which the tragedy occurred ' and other property not far away m East Melbourne. She is a widow and her son is a student atWesley College... 7 -

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NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 7

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559

SON'S HEROIC FIGHT NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 7

SON'S HEROIC FIGHT NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 7

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