THE YARRALDOOL MYSTERY.
TWO MEN MURDERED.
What is known as the Yarraldool mystery in now being unravelled by the police of the Narrabri (New Sooth Wales) district. In March last the remains of a man were found floating in the Namoi, at Yarraldool, which is a station near Pilliga. The body was enclosed in a sack, and bore marks of violence. Suspicions were aroused that murder bad been committed, and the police either failed to secure a satisfactory identification of the body or to trace the assassin. For some weeks a Cingalese was kept in custody on a charge of murdering the man ; but, as evidence failed to connect him with the crime, be was discharged. Some weeks ago a sensation was created at Bonrke by the discovery of the mutilated remains of a man at Brennan Bend, on the river, and the police arrested a man named Thomas Moore, who was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered one Thomas Smith, whose remains were found at Brennan Bend. Accosed was committed on the 3rd November to the Central Criminal Court, Sydney. The horse, cart, and harness found in the possession of Moore have been positively identified at Tamworth as being the property of a fruit hawker pained Anderson, who purchased them in Tamworth about eighteen months ago. Anderson bought the harness in Tamworth from a saddler named Noakes, who believed it to be the same as that sold .to tfct murdered man. The former owner of the cart and horse, a boarding-house keener, has.also identified the property foudd in tbh possession of Moore. *■
The police have to within seven miles of the spot where the body was found floating in the rivey by two .travellers in a boat. They have alao a photograph of Moore, showing two fingers of one hand missing. The; are now tracing bis movements in the district,' When the cart jvas found in the possession of Moore'it.had been repainted,' bat under the new punt fcas found the name of the former owner, one W. Moran, St. Petgox, utrbich is a town in Victoria. !
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Evening Star, Issue 10213, 15 January 1897, Page 3
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350THE YARRALDOOL MYSTERY. Evening Star, Issue 10213, 15 January 1897, Page 3
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