THE ARMIDALE TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 300, 15 December 1908, Page 2

THE ARMIDALE TRAGEDY.

XU MOT IV K DISCOVEUED. Sydney, December 14. | Xo crime iias been discovered for the niiii.' at Arniidule. Miss Kelly hail lieen employed at Ike hotel only a lew weeks. .ui engagement ring, receiv.'d ll'um :i sweetheart iln- prev.oiis mgiil, was umnd under ( licr pillow. 1 • A lilliL AIiiiESTED, | DA.MAIiIXO EVIDENCE. lleeeived 14, ll.:iu p.in. Sydney, Da-ember 11. Tlie girl O'J-eary, whu slept in a room I with Miss Kelly, has been arrested on suspicion. At the inquest tiie lady proprietor of the Central Hotel deposed that the girl 0 Leary eaine into her room early in tip morning a'ud reported that Miss Kelly had burst a Mood vessel. She went into the room and found the girl with her throat cut. o'l,eary afterwards told the story about the man escaping through tlie window, in the meantime O'Leary had 'changed her clothes in witness' room. f % The police discovered partially-burned portions oi' vlothing, apparently bloodstained, u.nder a copper. The owner of the hotel was unaware of a lire being there since Saturday. So far aa she knew Kelly and O 1 Leary were on good terms. Doctor Scott deposed as to finding blood on the girl O'Leary's petticoat, underclothing and lingers. She aeeounted for this by saying she had been on the bed holding the dying girl. A big three-hladed pocket knife was I also produced. One of the blades was marked with blood. Dr. Scott said the , blood found on clot lies was not I where it should have been if she Imd t been holding Miss Kelly. Some portions of O'Leary's elothes are misshg. Miss Kelly's sweetheart- deposed as

, to giving Ikt an engngemcnt linj; on ~ Saturday night, ir.nl left there at eleven o'clock, when nil was right. B The inquest was adjourned till Fri- - day.