THE O'KEEFE MURDER.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 16, 19 July 1906, Page 2

THE O'KEEFE MURDER.

PRISONER STONED. THE MURDERER'S OWN AOCOUNT. Press Association. — Copyright. * Received July 19, 9.16 a.m. < Sydney, Thursday. Brown was charged with the O'Keefe murder at the fiallina Police Court and remanded for eight days. While . being brought back a man threw a ! stone and struck Brown on the head, i The prisoner in his fight after committing the murders travelled eighty miles in forty hours. In course of conversation with the arresting officer, Brown stated that he went over to O'Keefe's not with the intention of murdering them, what he wanted was money and arms. He took the bayonet out and also a bag filled, with sand and stones. He hit the old woman with the bag, but it broke. He then drew the bayonet. Mrs O'Keefe screamed for help and the old man came to her , assistance. ' He stabbed him with the bayonet again and again. Then Gillick came out and hit Brown with a bottle. He then went for them with the bayonet right and left. "I suppose," he concluded, " I will be hung forit,"