Broken Lives by Estelle Blackburn

Author:Estelle Blackburn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRU000000
ISBN: 9781742734620
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Published: 2008-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Death and Defeat

3.40–4.30 A.M.

John Button states:

I have been cautioned by Detective Deering that I am not obliged to make a statement unless I desire to do so and that anything I do say may be taken down and given in evidence.

I now wish to say that the statement that I gave to Detective Deering earlier this date is not the truth and I now wish to state:

I have now been informed that Rosemary Anderson is now dead and I now wish to tell the truth about what happened.

On the 9/2/63 at about 12 noon I went to Rosemary’s home at 145 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont. I stayed there until about 6 o’clock. During this time I watched television and had lunch with Rosemary and her brother and sister.

At 6 o’clock in the evening Rosemary and I drove to my home in my Simca sedan. We intended to have tea at my home. When we arrived at my home at 8 Redfern Street, Subiaco, my mother and father and brother were home. We all had tea together at about 7 p.m.

My parents went out at about 7.30 p.m. and left Rosemary, my brother and I, home. The three of us sat around and played cards. We played strip poker. This means that the loser of each game had to take off one article of clothing at a time.

We played quite a few games and my brother and I won most of the games. Rosemary took off her jumper, then both stockings and then her suspender belt. My brother walked out of the room and I tried to get fresh with Rosemary. I kissed her and I tried to play with her breasts. She would not be in it and said that she was going to walk home.

Before we started to play cards we had gone down to the Shenton Park fish shop and got some fish and chips. We were eating them while we were playing cards.

Rosemary got in a lousy mood because I tried to play with her breasts and said that she was going to walk home. She picked up her make-up from my car which was parked out the front of my home.

I followed her out of the house and when I saw her walk off down the street I went back into the house and got my car keys. I also picked up her suspender belt and stockings and put them in my car. I decided to follow Rosemary and see if I could make it up with her.

By the time I got into my car she was at the corner of Hensman and Redfern Streets. I got going and caught up with her when she got into Hensman Street. I pulled up alongside her and asked if I could make it up. I told her that I was sorry for what I did.

She told me that she did not want to make it up and kept on walking. I kept on driving slowly alongside her and followed her along Hensman Street into Nicholson Road.

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