A SYDNEY CRIME.
Received January 7, 11.36 p.m. SYDNEY, January 7.
Casey has b: ci com mil ted for trial for murdering Johtfnna Kelly. His confession stateJ that after visiting other hotels to try and get a drink, and finding them closed he went to the hotel where" Kelly was employed. Fie saw the woman enter the bedroom, and believed her to be the identical woman who robbed him in Queensland. Under this impression, when all was quiet, he entered the bedroom and cut the woman's throat.' He confessed because the crime was troubling him.
Casey, whose manner in Court waa strange, was not asked to plead.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9685, 8 January 1910, Page 5
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107A SYDNEY CRIME. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9685, 8 January 1910, Page 5
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