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New South Wales, Australia: 1788-1908
BIRTHS:
Registration Number:36127/1911
Last Name:MARTYR
Given Name(s):LESLIE G
Father's Given Name:CLAUDE C
Mother's Given Name:MAGGIE E
District:SYDNEY
Source:
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au
Australian Government, National Archives of Australia:
Record Research Item Details:
B884, Q140007:
Title:MARTYR Leslie George: Service Number - Q140007: Date of Birth - 20 Sep 1911: Place of Birth - Sydney NSW: Place of Enlistment - Brisbane QLD: Next-of-Kin - MARTYR Ivy.
Australian Government, Department of Veteran's Affairs:
World War Two Service
SAPPER
LESLIE GEORGE MARTYR
Q140007
SERVICEAUSTRALIAN ARMY
DATE OF BIRTH29 SEPTEMBER 1911
PLACE OF BIRTHSYDNEY, NSW
DATE OF ENLISTMENT16 FEBRUARY 1942
LOCALITY ON ENLISTMENTBULIMBA, QLD
PLACE OF ENLISTMENTBRISBANE, QLD
NEXT OF KINMARTYR, IVY
DATE OF DISCHARGE25 JANUARY 1943
POSTING AT DISCHARGE1 GARRISON BATTALION
Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954) View title info Sun 3 Dec 1944
Page 23 "I WILL RIDDLE YOU"
Leslie George Martyr, fined in Brisbane
police court over a revolver. 'Twas
alleged he threatened his wife and
daughter (see story).
"I LOVE my wife and children, and I don't know why she
should, leave me. I have given my wife every penny I
have earned. I have done everything for my family — but
there is something I don't understand."
Momentarily breaking down during these impassioned declarations,
Leslie George Martyr, 34-year-old seaman, but unemployed, went on to
explain in Brisbane Police Court on Friday afternoon why he had
pointed a .45 automatic pistol at his wife and step-daughter in Stanley
street, on Thursday night. He was in court on two charges relating to
the weapon.
MARTYR declared that when he went to sea last September, he
left his wife on the best of terms, but when he returned he found the
home gone, and his wife and furniture missing.
He went back to Sydney looking for her, he further said, and even-
tually returned to Brisbane, and on Thursday night last met her in Stan-
ley-street.
Defendant went on to say that he howed his wife the gun in one hand,
and a magazine of bullets in the other. He did it in order to frighten
her. He added that he found the gun underneath a seat in a railway
carriage, on the way from Sydney Police prosecutor (Detective Sen-
ior-sergeant Buggy) told the court that police inquiries showed that
when Martyr met his wife on Thursday night, she refused to return to
him.
He then, went on the senior-sergeant, followed her across Stanley-
street, where she again refused to go back to him, and then defendant
pointed the gun at her and declared,"If you don't return to live with me
I will riddle you with this."
The prosecutor said that Martyr made a similar threat to his step-
daughter, with the words, 'Don't move, Peggy, or I will let you have
it, too."
Mrs. Martyr became afraid, and in order to placate her husband, took
him to her room in Graham-street, South Brisbane, where Martyr agreed
to leave his gun, on condition she would live with him the next day,
continued the prosecutor. Martyr left and then his wife informed the
police.
Located outside his wife's residence on Friday morning, defendant denied
to the police that he had threatened his wife, and said that he had only
Fix this textproduced the gun to frighten her, said Senior-sergeant Buggy. Mrs.
Martyr was afraid of her husband, who had been previously convicted
for carrying a gun.
The prosecutor added that defendant had given his wife £105,
after he had produced the gun. Martyr: I gave it to her in an
attempt to effect a reconciliation. Mr. G. A. Cameron, C.S.M. fined
Martyr a total of £20, with 12/- costs, or three months' gaol, on charges of
having an unlicensed pistol in his possession, and with having in his
possession a pistol suspected of having been stolen.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203761394
Australian National Archives: Trove Collection of Newspapers
Truth: Sydney, NSW: 1894-1954, 31 March 1948, Page 8
"SHE WILL DIE" HUSBAND'S
ALLEGED THREATS
SENSATIONAL evidence was given at Central Court on Tuesday during the hearing of a case in which Leslie George Martyr (37) was charged with having assaulted his wife, Mrs. Ivy Lilian Martyr, and occasioned her actual bodily harm.
Det. Gordon McLean declared that when arrested Martyr said to him: "She will not be game to give evidence against me, and if she does she will die. I will cut her up into little pieces and feed her to the cat after I have blown her guts out."
Mrs. Martyr, who lives at 32 Mona Rd., Darling Point, said in evidence that she and her husband had been living apart for the past three years. She said that on March 17, after she had alighted from a bus in King's Cross, her husband came up to her and said, "Come quietly or you know what you will get." He then grabbed her by the arm, hit her in the face and said "I am going to 'do' you this time," Mrs. Martyr declared. "When he struck me I fell to the ground and he kicked me on the hip. I remembered nothing more until I woke up in Rushcutters Bay Park with my husband holding his hand over my face," Mrs. Martyr told Mr. Denton, S.M. "I screamed and he ran away. I went to a friend's place in Craigend St. Next day I received treatment at St. Vincent's Hospital. "I have suffered pains in the head. I cannot concentrate and cannot work," she said. Mrs. Martyr said that on March 15 Martyr visited her at her flat and attempted to stab her with a knife, and on March 12 in King's Cross Rd., he took a knife from his pocket, stood over her with it and said "Get down and get that warrant stopped." She explained that in making this threat Martyr was refer-ring to a warrant she had taken out against, him for arrears of maintenance for herself and her two children. "He jabbed the knife at me and I went with him to the Children's Court, Surry Hills, and had the warrant stopped," Mrs. Martyr declared. "I stopped the warrant because I was frightened he would kill me if I didn't." Mrs. Martyr stated that her husband also said to her, "You can take our young son, Terry, to the court, but if he gives evidence you will stop a — bullet. If I go into gaol you will be done up by my friends." Mrs. Martyr said she was "dreadfully frightened" of her husband.
Det. Gordon McLean, of Darlinghurst, said in evidence that at about 9 a.m. on March 22, with Det. Clark, he went to Rushcutters Bay Park, where he told Martyr his wife had given him in charge for assaulting her the previous Wednesday night, and arrested him. Martyr, according to McLean, replied, "O.K., but you are wasting your time. She will not be game to give evidence against me, and if she does she will die. I will cut her up in little pieces and feed her to the cat after I blow her guts out." On the way to the station, Det. McLean added, Martyr said to his wife, who was in the police car: "It is a pity I did not do you properly. I meant to and when I get bail I will give the coppers something to arrest me for. "I may as well go in for life, and I will if you do not pull this out."
At the Darlinghurst police station, Det. McLean declared, Martyr said to him, "This is all over the Craig shooting. My wife will not carry on with it." In reply to the Police Prosecutor (Sgt. Goode), McLean said Martyr's son Terry gave evidence in the matter of the alleged shooting by the woman Craig of two men in a King's Cross flat.
Martyr was committed for trial.
Sgt. Goode prosecuted.
Mr. Denton, S.M. (Photo)
MRS. IVY MARTYR. (Photo)
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169372723
Mirror (Perth, WA : 1921 1956),
Saturday 3 April 1948, page 21
Alleges Death Threat
'I WILL CUT HER UP, FEED HER TO CAT'
"I will cut her up into little pieces and feed her to the cat after I blow her guts out," is
what a detective claims laborer Leslie George Martyr told him when he went to arrest him. Martyr, according to police, was referring to his wife Ivy Lillian Martyr pictured above.
Detective, G. McLean of Sydney, alleged that Martyr told him this after saying his
wife would die if she dare evidence against him. Charged with assaulting his
wife occasioning her actual bodily harm, Martyr was granted an adjournment to
seek legal advice. Waitress Ivy Martyr said her husband hit her in the face when he alighted from a King's Cross bus on March 17. Said she: 'He told me he was going to 'do' me this time. I fell to the ground and he kicked me about the body. I was screaming and he was half lying across my body. He ran away when people
came to my assistance."
Mrs. Martyr told the prosecutor that her husband had visited her flat shortly before
and had tried to stab her with a knife. "I've been living apart from him for 3 years and am terrified of him," she added. "He told me I'd cop a bullet if our 7-year-old son gave evidence about an occurrence in a King's Cross flat. He said to me, "If I go to
gaol you will be done for by my friends the arm of the underworld is long."
Martyr was arrested in Rushcutters' Bay park, will tell his side of the story when
the case resumes.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/rendition/nla.newsarticle75775654
Queensland Government State Archives:
Item Details:
Item ID:791075
Previous System Location:SRS4511/1/589
Parent Item:None
Transfer ID:3676
Record Type:Murder file
Item Format:Files
Description:MARTYR, Leslie George, Charged with unlawfully killing
Departmental Numbers:695N
Preferred Citation:Queensland State Archives Item ID791075 Murder file
Start Date:10/11/1961
End Date:20/2/1962
Series ID:4511
Cura advisari vult.
MANSFIELD C.J.:The appellant Leslie George Martyr was convicted
of the offence of unlawfully killing one Alexander Walter Scott at
Townsville on 9th November, 1961, and sentenced to four years im-
prisonment with hard labour.
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1911 - Aft 1961 (> 50 years)
