WEST ADELAIDE TRAGEDY
A MAN ARRESTED. [Bv Electiuc Tklegbaph>—Copvbight] [United Pbess .Association.] (Received 10.20 a.m.) Adelaide, October 16. James Ryan has been arrested ii connection with the death, of Stephens who was discovered on the 13th tilt.' unconscious in a paddock at West Adelaide with a woman standing near the dying man, to whom she was ongaged. Ryan was a witness at the inquest, and in his evidence said that when he got off the tramcar at 11.50 at night he noticed a man and woman conversing. He heard dogs barking at 1.30 in the morning and went out. He saw the man lying bleeding at the ear, with a beer bottle alongside which seemed stained with blood. The woman, who was intoxicated, asked him to bring the police, hut when ho returned the woman had gone.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 39, 16 October 1913, Page 5
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137WEST ADELAIDE TRAGEDY Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 39, 16 October 1913, Page 5
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