Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Son of Charles ILLMAN 
Of Youngtown, Tas.

FATAL HEAD WOUND.
Young Man Charged With Murder.
LAUNCESTON. April 9.-The Coroner (Mr. E. L. Hall) held an inquiry at Launceston today into the death of Charles George Illman (35), and at its conclusion committed Albert Edward Marchant, a young man, for trial on a charge of murder.
Evidence was given that Marchant had asked Illman for fivepence to make up enough money to buy a couple of bottles of beer. Illman had refused, and Marchant had struck Illman, who fell to the ground. Marchant, it was further alleged, again struck deceased while he was on the ground. Medical evidence disclosed that Illman had died as a result of a wound in the back of the head, which he received when his head struck the pavement in falling.

The deceased after the war entered a repatriation trades school at Launceston, and was a member of a class which received instruction in French polishing from the Mayor (Mrs. A Hollingsworth).  He was spoken of very highly by the Mayor, who expressed his regret at his death.  Soon after the war the deceased while riding a motor-cycle, collided with a horse and cart, and one of the shafts pierced his chest.  That happened the day before he received his discharge from the AIF and as a result he became the recipent of a war pension.