MELBOURNE SENSATION.
THE ALLEGED CONFESSION. A PRISONER’S STORY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Melbourne, Jan. 27. At the Tirtschke inquest, Sydney Harding, a prisoner in the Melbourne gaol awaiting trial, gaye evidence that Ross (the accused) tqld him he took the girl into his private room, behind the bar and gave her three glasses of wine. She went to sleep and when she woke started to moan and cry. He tried to pacify- her and then lost his head and choked her. He washed out the bar to destroy the traces and returned lat at night and took the body to where it was found, in the meantime arranging his movement so as to throw off suspicion. He added that it acquitted he was going for heavy compensation. If convicted he must get hold of some cyanide.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1922, Page 5
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135MELBOURNE SENSATION. Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1922, Page 5
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