SMALL-POX.
ON A STEAMER FROM CHINA. By Ti>J*traph.— Prass Aar>eiatlnn.— Copyright. (Received April 14, 10.9 a.m.) THURSDAY ISLAND, This Day. The steamer Aldenham has arrived from China. A Chinese member of the crew is suffering from small pox. MURDER OF A CONSTABLE. 1 * MAN ARRESTED. '' By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrifhtt ; (Received April 14, 10.10 a.m.) ADELAIDE. This Day. , Coleman, who shot Constable Ring, was arrested near Morpothville. He made no resistance. The man has a small wound on tho arm. He stated that he cut himself with glass, hoping to bleed to death. Coleman, a fisherman residing at Glenelg, was, on the 28th of last month, arrested by Constable Ring on a charge of drunkenness and being disorderly, and was fined fivo shillings. Ho evidently regarded hie arrest as a grievous insult, and intimutcd his intention of doing for Ring. He met the constable, at midnight, and fired pqinl-blank with a gun at Ring's breust, killing him in-, stantly. He then got away.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 89, 14 April 1908, Page 7
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