MURDER OF A BLACK BOY.
A SOX ACCUSES HIS FATHER. THE BODY EXHUIIED. (Per Press Association. —t'opyriyht.) Cooktown, Oct. 27. A selector named Brannigan, residing in Hidden Valley, was remanded on a charge of murdering his black boy. Young Brannigan informed the police his father threatened to shoot him for refusing to fire into the house of a neighbor against whom he had a grudge. He stated that his father killed the boy in his employ with an axe on October 4th. He took the police to the spot where the boy wa» buried, and the remains were exhumed. The son states that he was afraid to give information of the murder as his father threatened to shoot him.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 462, 28 October 1897, Page 3
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119MURDER OF A BLACK BOY. Hastings Standard, Issue 462, 28 October 1897, Page 3
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