WESTRALIAN TRAGEDY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9016, 2 December 1907, Page 2

WESTRALIAN TRAGEDY.

MURDER WILL OUT. Per Press Association. -Copyright. Received December 3, 9.13 a. in. Perth, December 3. A shocking tragedy, perpetrated a week ago, has been brought to light. The victim was a woman named Clark, wlio has beep living with a gardener named Moore at Belmont Park. Mooro confessed the _ crime and the manner in which he disposed of the body by burying it sis feet deep in the kitchen, So completely was the hrime concealed that but for his subsequent actions the crime might never have been sheeted home. The couple quarrelled frequently and the stofy told to the neighbours was that the woman had cleared out. Ou the night of the murder the woman was heard cry out “Oh Jack, Oh Jack. ” The neighbours subsequently had suspicions and informed the [police. The latter examining the kitchen prodded the soft earth of the floor with a stick which Mooro sharpened for them for the purpose. Moore accounted for the boxes of woman’s apparel in the 'room by stating that they had been left by a previous housekeeper, Mrs Pearson, whose whereabouts will also be investigated. Search with pointed stick' revealed nothing, because it was only three feet long. At a second visit by Inspector Oouneil lie found Mooro restless and unable to sleep, bis stretcher being over the soft oartli floor ou the spot where the body was subsequently fouud. When confronted by the Inspector, Moore confessed 'to the murder aud said “Wo had a row. I was sitting ou a box reading the paper when she came iu and said good-bye. A few seconds afterwards she came back into the room with an axe which had beeu hidden for some time previously and made * a swipe at me. 1 ducked aud missed the blow and then jumped up aud punched her. Then I grabbed her by the throat, strangled her aud there she is. She is down there—pointing to the floor—l buried her boots aud clothing and buried the body naked with lime, ” ’ . The body when exhumed was in a shocking state.