THE GILGANDIA TRAGEDY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9822, 23 July 1900, Page 5

THE GILGANDIA TRAGEDY.

Young Woman Tomahawked. Mrs Mawbey’s Dying Depositions. Police on the Murderers’ Track. Outrage Premeditated. More Murderous Intentions. United Pre>s Association, By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 25, 10 a.m.) Sydney, This day.' Hilda Mawbey and Miss Kerz escaped through their bedroom window and fled, holding each other’s hands. After tomahawking the others Jimmy Governor pursued and killed Miss Kerz, and overtook Hilda through her falling in a creek. Mrs Mawbey, in her dying depositions, stated that she only saw Jimmy and another black, called Jockey, in the room. She heard the others outside.

The'police are following the tracks of three blacks, which show that great cunning has been used to efface the trail, the men walking in each other’s footsteps. When fired on some miles from the scene of the tragedy, Jimmy raised his rifle but did not fire. He is believed to have no ammunition. The two Governors are notorious characters, and Jimmy is an extracker.

Jimmy’s wife states that the tragedy had been contemplated for some time. It was intended to murder the Mawbevs, but the one to do the killing arrived too late.

The murderers declared their intention of stealing horses and going to Goiflbnrn river to kill three of their own people who, the Governors aver, killed their father.

Jockey Porter offered great resistance to arrest.

Previous cables containing reference to this tragedy will be found on page ihiee.