SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 3 December 1907, Page 3

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

»i— l - " PODY hMilAiiaJ _ LIME. ~ A CONFESSION. "" Perth, Dewmbcr z. A shocking crime, pe.petraiea a. iwtt ftgOj lias been brou&m to iignt. 1 - L * yieum wa» a woman named LlurK, wno been living with a gardener named JloOre at lielniont Park. Itoore has contested the crime. lae manner in which he had imposed ot me body by burying it bjc leet deep in Us kitchen, was bo thorougn that, out tor his subsequent actions, the crime Bight never nave been sheeted fiowe. {Die Couple quarrelled irequently. The ,itory Moore told Ilia neighbours »as that the woman had " cleared out on the night of the murder.

Hie woman hud been heard to crv Oat, "Oh, Jack: (Jh, Jack!" 'ilie neighbours subsequently bad their suspicions. They informed the police. Policemen, in examining the kitchen probed the soft earth of the floor with It stick which Moore sharpened for them for the purpose. Moore accounted for |>oxes o£ woman's apparel in the room by stating that they had been left I>y Us previous housekeeper, Mrs. Pearson, jrhose whereabouts will also be investigated. The search with the pointed ■tick revealed nothing, because the stick JTBS only three feet long. 'A second visit was paid to the house By Inspector Connell. He found Moore lesthre and unable to sleep.

Bis stretcher was over the soft earth on the floor. At this spot the body was Subsequently found. When confronted il>y the Inspector, Xoore confessed the murder. He said: "We had a row. I was Bitting on the box reading the piper, lnftnKfhe came in and said 'good-bve.' 'A few seconds later she came back into the room with an axe which had been hidden for some time. She made a ■wipe at me. I ducked and missed the Mow, and then T grablied her by the Ikroat and strangled her. and there she is. Bhe is down there "—pointing to ike floor.

He bimed her boots and clothing ami fntried the body, faked, with lime.

The body has been exhumed. It is b a shocking state.