The Gun Alley Tragedy: Record of the Trial of Colin Campbell Ross — John Shaqi
The Gun Alley Tragedy: Record of the Trial of Colin Campbell RossBrennan, T. C. (Thomas Cornelius)
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The Gun Alley Tragedy: Record of the Trial of Colin Campbell Ross
Brennan, T. C. (Thomas Cornelius)
Ross, Colin Campbell, 1892-1922 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Murder) -- Australia -- Victoria -- Melbourne
(3) After 6 o’clock, At 6 o’clock the girl
when Stanley left, he got was still asleep in the cubicle,
“fooling about with her” and “I could not resist
(she being quite alert and the temptation.” She
knowing what was moaned a little and
meant), and it was all seemed to faint. I left
over in a minute. “I the room, and after a
strangled her in my little time she commenced
passion.” After it was all to call out again, and I
over, “I could have taken went in to stop her, and
a knife and slashed her up in endeavouring to stop
and myself too, because her I must have choked
she led me on to it.” her. I got suddenly cool
and commenced to think.
(4) He had to meet a “Could Gladys not see
girl friend, so he took the the girl when you went
body from the cubicle into the cafe?” No, as
and put it in the beaded the body was in the cubicle,
room off the big room, we had our drink in
and brought Gladys Wain the big room.
into the cubicle, and when
Gladys was gone he
brought the body back
into the cubicle.
(5) I asked him how I said: “Did you go
he got back, and he said back by car?” He said,
he came back by motor car. “No”; he had a bike. I
said: “A motor bike?” He
said: “No, a push bike.”
It will be seen that on every point about which nothing was known to
the police, the two “confessions” are absolutely at variance. On the
points known to the police, they absolutely agree except that Harding
(rightly) makes Ross speak to another girl at the door before he
speaks to Gladys Wain. This the police knew from Stanley’s statement,
though it is not in Ross’s written statement. Further comment on these
suggestive facts seems unnecessary.
WAS THERE “INSIDE” KNOWLEDGE?
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