HORSHAM TRAGEDY.
HAY CONFESSES THE DEED. INCRIMINATING CONVERSATION OVERHEARD. United Press Association —Copyright MELBOURNE, July 19. Hay told the police that he quarrelled with Cox, who accused him of always being drunk when lie came home. He struck Cox several times with a toy gun, and then he grasped him by the throat and held it for 15 minutes, till Cox was dead. He afterwards washed the dead man’s face. Mrs Cox also admitted that Hay killed her husband. The medical evidence showed that the man had been strangled, death being accelerated by a weak heart.. The police also overheard an. incriminating conversation between the two accused while occupying adjacent cells.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 5
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111HORSHAM TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 5
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