TRIPLE MURDER
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. RECENT TASMANIAN TRAGEDY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Dav. 10.45 a.m.) HOBART. This Day. Cabinet has comrnu a to life imprisonment the sentence of death passed on Cyril Estcourt.
Cyril Estcourt was charged with triple murder, the charge resulting from the shooting on April 24. at Grass Hill, near Hobart, of two men and a young married woman. He was the husband of the woman victim, Doreen Estcourt. and had been married only three months. The two men victims were Norman Williams, aged 50, and Alfred Webb, aged 55. Neighbours said they saw Mrs Estcourt, pursued by a man, running in the direction of a house occupied .by Williams, his wife and four children, and that she ran inside. Williams was shot through the heart and Mrs Estcourt in the neck. The man then went to the home of Webb, who was almost blind. Webb was shot through the heart.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 7
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155TRIPLE MURDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 7
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