A BUSH TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 251, 22 October 1919, Page 9

A BUSH TRAGEDY.

RETURNED SOLDIER VICTIM. ROBBERY APPARENTLY THE MOTIVE TOOWOO.MBA (Q.), October 14. A murder of a particularly brutal character is reported from (Siligulgul i Station, near Miles. The details avail- i able here arc meagre, but it would ap- ' pear that a returned soldier named Bailey, who had for sonic time been foi- I lowing the calling of a " scalper." or ; trapper of marsupials, was the victim ot j the tragedy. i On Sunday last a settler named Wil- [ l.sky, while watering his cuttle in Sandy • Creek, noticed that the sand had been ! recently disturbed, and wits piled up in j the shape of a mound. He scratched away some of the sand and discovered the leg of a man clothed in khaki. The j police exhumed the body, which was , identified as that of Baiiey, He had been shot through the head, nnd there ] were indications that the shot was fired at close range. Evidently be bad only been dead about 24 hours. His rillc was found some distance away. It is understood that Bailey arrived from .Inandah recently with skins, and on receiving the cash for them had started on tlie return journey for Miles. He camped at the Hi-mile post for lunch, i It was there that the tragelv occurred. A man and n boy had previously camped.' With Bailey, and they had left for Miles | the same afternoon Six miles further | on the man parted from the boy, stating i that he was goin« wallaby shootinor. ' This man has not since been seen. The I money received by Hailey for his skins wus missintr when the hodv was exhumed. Bailey had he'd the rank of Sergt.-Major in the A.!.!•'. v