THE TRIPLE MURDER

Evening Star, Issue 12868, 18 July 1906, Page 6

THE TRIPLE MURDER

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BROWN ARRESTED. SYDHfEY, Jury 17. Brown was arrested by Sergeant Kane at DunviHo Creek, on the Tweed-lismor© Railway. He had travelled sixty miles since the night of the tragedy. He submitted quietly, and admitted lolling Mr and Mrs O'Keefe and the man Gillkk. With the exception that he had changed his clothes, Brown made no attempt to disguise or to hide. He told inquirers that he was en route for Ttenterfield. When Sergeant Kane accosted him Brown gave a fake name, and when questioned regarding some scratches on his face he threw down his swag. Sergeant Kane seized and handcuffed him, and said: "You might as well make a clean breast of it." Brown then confessed. His swag contained a bloodstained bayonet, which he admitted having used in lolling one of his victims. It is stated that Mr O'Keefe was smothered with a towel, there beiog no wocinds on his body. Mrs O'Keefe was stabbed, and Gillick's bead was split open.

THE CRIMINAL'S MOTIVE.

SYDNEY, July 18. (Received Jahy 18, at 9.50 a.m.)

Brown is reported to have told Kane that he committed the murders with the idea of getting money bo start a revolution in order to secure a white Australia.