A Charge Of Murder

A MAN well-known in the Pacific, William Baddeley, aged 67, described as retired and a resident of Duxford Street, Paddington, Sydney, has been charged with the murder of Miss Gaai, aged 34, a single woman who was found dead in her flat in October. It appears that she had been living for two years with a man named Atkinson, as his wife, and she became very seriously ill. The police suspected that she was the victim of an operation and the arrest of Baddeley took place in connection with that suspicion.

William Baddeley was for many years hospital superintendent for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at Labasa and Lautoka, in Fiji. About 1930 he was in the Solomon Islands as a medical official, on one of Burns, Philp’s steamers. He ex plained then that he had been employed in connection with the replacement of medical supplies on board the company s steamers, and in this particular case, as the medical officer had not turned up he

had occupied the position of medical offi cer for the trip. He is described as a good type of man, and he had the reputation in the Islands of being a very capable hospital superintendent.

He is a qualified chemist taut is not registered in Australia.