MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
BROTHERS' DRUNKEN FIGHT ENDS FATALLY. THE SURVIV~OR ARRESTED. Melbourne, April 9. A mysterious murder has occurred. Two brothers, named William and Frederick Parker, when proceeding home after a family reunion, stopped at an hotel, and afterwards fought outside. William knocked Frederick down, severely kicked him, and then ran away.■' Frederick arose and wont off in the opposite direction. Soon afterwards William staggered back to the hot-el with a gaping wound in the throat, and was taken to the hospital. In reply, to questions, by the police he refused to say Who cut his throat. He only said that if they arrested his brother they would be taking the wrong man. He died a couple of hours later. Frederick disappeared, but in the afternoon surrendered to the police. Fis clothes were blood-stained. He says that he was drunk on .the previous night, and remembers fighting, but forgets what followed. He has been charged with murder.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 86, 10 April 1912, Page 6
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156MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 86, 10 April 1912, Page 6
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