CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.]
THE TRIPLE MURDER IN QUEENSLAND. «. FURTHER PARTICULARS OP A FIENDISH CRIME. [PHESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received December 29, 9.15 a.m.) BmBb!ne, This Day. Blaok trackers are at work in connection with the investigation of theGatton murder, in which a youug man named Michael Murphy and his two sisters were murdered, and the women also outraged, some 60 miles west of this city. As yet there is no clue to the identity of the murderers. The tracks of two horses have been discovered in the paddock in which the bodies were found. Two armed horsemen were seen some miles from the scene on the night of the tragedy. At a late hour they called at a farmhouse to feed their horses, and then rode in opposite directions. It is believed that the first attack on the deceased was mad© on the main road, and that the bodies were afterwards taken in deceased's dogcart to where they were found. The horse was shot and its throat also cut. There are signs that the girls struggled terribly. Their clothes are torn to shreds, and the lower portions of their bodies badly bruised. , s
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1898, Page 5
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193CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1898, Page 5
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