"HIT HIM WITH BOTTLE."
■ ■ • - 3-TJBDER CHARGE. ;."*-■ "A man who steals another man's food should not be allowed to live. He went to my camp last Saturday and stole some of my property." > : James Joseph Ross is alleged to have spoken thus to the poKee at Brisbane when questioned regarding the death of Frederick ("Nugget") Ross, his - camp-mate, whose body was found in "Black Jack's Hax-py," near Tully a month ago- . Ross was committed for trial at X__y Police Court on a charge of w__nl murder-Detective-Sergeant Canffl. .of Timfatfan, told how he discovered the body with a gash an inch long in the 5 tpmple, and bottles lying alongside. He said accnsrd replied to hia questions by saying: "Tea, he's dead all right. He should have bees, dead long ago." "I went to hia hut aad demanded my property. He said: You can't have it,' I -aid: 'Get up aad fight' He stood ap. and when X saw to was a stiuaa-j asan than I was I hit him with a bettle, hot X did not know then that X tod killed __■_**
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 258, 30 October 1926, Page 33
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