A KANAKA OUTRAGE.
PRISONER MURDERS TWO MEN IN GAOL.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, March $0. A tragedy has occurred in the Mackay lock-up. A Kanaka, awaiting trial on a charge of murder, was in the exercise yard with a number of other prisoners. He somehow got possession of an axe, and attacked and killed a white man named James Martin. The lock-up-keeper, named Johnson, entered, .and the Kanaka killed him. A police sergeant climbed a tree outside the yard, and shot the Kanaka in the thigh. The murderer entered hie cell, and then the police , rushed him, and after a struggle overpowered him.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11546, 31 March 1903, Page 5
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