TRAGEDY AFTER TRAGEDY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 69, 21 November 1913, Page 6

TRAGEDY AFTER TRAGEDY

DISCOVERY OF SETTLERS’ BODY

Electric telegraph—Copy right j [L ,iteu Press association.] (Received 9.55 a.in.) Perth, November 21.

Richard Thomas W illiams, settlei. at Warroons, disappeared about the middle of September and bis body bus been found buried a few inches below the surface, close to his residence, with the skull battered. Odgers, who shot Mrs Molyneaux, worked for Williams early in Oetobei. He sold a horse, cart, and rifle belonging to Williams and gave a receipt in the name of Williams.

The tragedy took place at North Damlaloup. In the absence of her husband Odgers bad paid attentions to Mrs Molyneaux. Her husband and she left the district, hut Odgers found out where they were, procured a rifle and, ammunition, visited their house and demanded to see the wife. The husband warned his wife to escape, and then, after a struggle with Odgers for the possession of the lifle, he fled with his two children. Odgers fired two harmless shots after them. After several more shots were heard the husband returned with a neighbour and found Mrs Molyneaux shot dead Odgers, who had disapepared, was discovered a mile from the scene, with a wound in the mouth. His jaw was fractured. Ho was not seriously injured and was removed to thb hospital. Septic poisoning set in and it was feared it would prove fatal, hut three weeks, later he recovered and was able to speak. He stated that his jaw was fractured and his cheek blown away, not by the bullet of his last cartridge, hut by a dynamite cap, which exploded in his mouth. Odgeis lay for two days in heavy ram in the scrub before being discovered.