AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDLES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10333, 29 April 1899, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDLES.

United Press Association—By Electrid ' Telegraph—Copyright. ;., MELBOURNE, April 28; A young.woman named Anastasia Butler , has 'been arrested on a charge of murdering ' her father, whose dead body was recently found. • After the discovery of the tragedy, , the woman made a statement that she gave ' her father £5 to enable him to take a holi-d-,v, and that that was tho last rhe saw of , him. ,' ' PERTH, April 28. Bowen,, who was charged with the murder i of his sister-in-law and her three children : at Mount Magnet, by setting fire, to a tent, , has been acquitted. » ] The dead body of the murdered man, Dave Bntlcr, the victim of the Mansfield tragedy, was found in a rubbish heap in the back yard of his house. He had then been dead for some daya His daughter, who has been arrested, was employed as a domestic servant in Mansfield.' The viotims of the West Australian tragedy were Mrs McArthur and her children, who Were burned to death in their home at Mount Magnet, a town on the Murchison Goldfields, 450 miles north of Perth. Hartley Bowen was Mrs McArthur's brother-in-law, and his wife, from whom he had been separated, had been living with the McArthurs. Alter the fire tracks yffero found leading from McArthur's house *p ; 80-' ten's but, and aa Bowcn had been heard to threaten, to do for the lot of, them, be was arrested. '