THE TRIPLE MURDER
THE MURDERER'S CONFESSION
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SYDNEY, July 19. (Received Jnly 19, a b 9.16 a.m.) Brown was charged at the Baflina Police Court and remanded for eight days. While being brought back a man threw a stone, and struck Blown on the head. The prisoner, in his flight after committing the murders, travelled eighty milea in forty hours. In the course of conversation with the arresting officer, Brown stated that he went overtotheO'Keefe3', not with the intention of murdering them; what ho wanted was money and arms. He took a bayonet, also a bag filled with sand and stones. He hit the old woman with the bag, but it broke. He then drew his bayonet Mrs O'Keefe screamed for help, and the old man came to her assistance. Brown, stabbed him with the bayonet again and .again. Then Gillick came out, and hit Brown with a bottle. He then went for them with the bayonet right and loft. "I suppose," he concluded, "Til be hung for it."
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Evening Star, Volume 12869, Issue 12869, 19 July 1906, Page 6
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171THE TRIPLE MURDER Evening Star, Volume 12869, Issue 12869, 19 July 1906, Page 6
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