THE NEW SOUTH WALES TRAGEDY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9823, 24 July 1900, Page 2

THE NEW SOUTH WALES TRAGEDY.

Further Details,

Another Massacre.

An Old Cripple Killed.

United Frees Association

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

(Received July 24, 1 a.m.)

Sydney, July 23

Mrs Mawbey is dead. During a conscious interval she stated that Jack Underwood, a third black, accompanying Governor, killed Percy. Mr Mawbey says he was on the best of relations with the blacks, who were fencing. They owed him a few shillings, and he refused to give them any more m „ey till they had earned it, but he allowed tbem rations.

Two little children with Mrs Mawbey iv her bedroom were untouched, and slept throughout the tragedy. Grace escaped from the room, but was cut down just outside. Mawbey, who was sleeping in another part of tbe selection, arrived ten minutes after the murders. The blacks evidently heard him coming and cleared. At the inquest Albert Mawbey, aged 9, gave evidence that he was awakened by hearing the blacks in the room. They threatened to blow out his brains, but he slipped out. While Percy was being killed he ran and informed his father.

George Mawbey, cousin, aged 13, sleeping iv the same room, heard Mrs Mawbey and tbe girls screaming. He followed Purcy into the sitting room, and saw two blacks. One killed Percy. He heard the voice of (another outside. He recognised Jimmy Governor urging them to dash out their brains. He had bad enough. Witness ran into the bedroom and hid under the bed till the murderers went. (Received July 24,1.30 a.m.) Information reached town late tonight that an elderly crippled man named Alex McKay was killed by two blacks at Sportsmen's Hollow on the road to Cassilis, on the Mudgee. McKay's wife was dangerously wounded. The murderers are de scribed as identical with those who killed the Mawbeys. They carried rifles and tomahawks and had two horses, which it is supposed were stolen The scene of the tragedy is in the direction the murderers were reported to be making. Great excitement prevails, and a large party of armed horsemen are in hot pursuit.