'Dramatic scenes at murder trial'

Newspaper article describing the murder by strangulation of three Melbourne women. The killer was popularly known as the 'Brown-out Strangler because the attacks took place during brown-outs - when lights were dimmed at night to stop enemy planes seeing cities during the War.

 

Truth, 18 July 1942, p1.

 

From the State Library of Victoria's Newspapers Collection.

The Brown-out Strangler