CARPENTARIA DOWNS MURDER

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1908, Page 7

CARPENTARIA DOWNS MURDER

A BLACKFELLOW'S STORY ALLEGED DETAELS OF THE CRIME. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received November 3, 10.7 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. William Wilson, an aboriginal station hand, giving evidence in the police court with regard to the murder of Miss Nelli© Duffy, a governess at a Carpentaria , Downs station — for which crime Mrs* | Wilson, wife of the manager of the station, has been arrested — stated that Mrs. Wilson asked him to come up in the morning as she wanted to kill Miss Duffy. He went up to the house before it was light, and together with MVs. Wilson, entered Miss Duffy's room. She was asleep. Mrs. Wilson had a pocketknife. He stood at the foot of the bed, and accused walked past him to Mies Duffy's Jtiead and told him to hold deceased's hands. He did so. Mrs. Wilson then put a handkerchief lo Miss Duffy's mouth and stuck a knife into the side of her neck. Deceased struggled a little. Accused held the handkerchief to deceased's mouth all the time, and then took the knife out. Witness went through the whole proceeding graphically in court. Miss Duffy, he said, only groaned a little. Accused, when she stabbed; had her left knee on the bed. Witness, at accused's request, washed the blood off deceased's hands. She told him to wash also tho bloodstained clothes. Accused was remanded for eight days. Advice received at Cairns on 12th October regarding the tragedy stated that it was rumoured on good information from the scene of the murder that an aboriginal was missing from the station, who would probably be able to throw some light on the affair. It was also rumoured that there was evidence of an anaesthetic being used, and that the jugulai vein of the victim was severed. ; The same authority stated that the bed clothes were not disarranged, the sheet being neatly folded, and one of the victim's hands placed under her head as if she had gone to sleep in that position.