THE BREELONG MURDERS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10865, 15 January 1901, Page 5

THE BREELONG MURDERS.

EXECUTION OF ONE OF THE CRIMINALS.

United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 14th, 10.9 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 14. Jacky Underwood was executed in Dubho Gaol. Death was instantaneous. [The aboriginal Jacky Underwood, was one of the perpetrators of the Breelong murders, and a fellow-criminal with Jimmy and Joe Governor. Apparently without any motive except sullen resentment of a fancied wrong, these three blacks left their camp at Gilgandra. New South Wales, shortly hefore midnight, on Friday. July 20th, and went to the house of Mr Mawbey, for whom they had been working at ring-barking. Taking advantage of the aosence of the men from the house, the aboriginals attacked the occupants, who were in bed. Armed with clubs and tomahawks, the blacks rushed through the house, pulling the terrified women and children out of bed, and dashing out their brains. Mrs Mawbey was the first to fall to the floor with her head battered in and her arms and neck gashed with fearful tomahawk wounds. Miss Elsie Clark, a niece of the Mawbeys, who slept in the same bedroom, was knocked on the head with a nulla-nulla, and the other occupants of the room, Miss Kertz, the school teacher, Grace Mawbey. and Hilda Ma-vbev, aged fourteen, who tried to escape by jumping out of the window, were pursued by the savages for several hundred yards, and clubbed to death. The boy Percy Mawbey. was murdered, whilst his brother Jack, hiding beneath the bed, escaped. Subsequently Jacky Underwood was arrested but the two Governors escaped and perpetrated other murders. Finally one of them was arrested and the other shot.