Alleged Parricide.
I PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. | SYDNEY, December 28. About six weeks ago a selector named Thomas Phillips, residing 16 miles from Cassilis, disappeared mysteriously. The police and others had been searching continuously, without any result, until last week, when charred human bones, together with brace buckles, boot nails, buttons, and a pocket knife were found in a large stump hole', 800 yards from a hut. Portion of the skull shows a bullet-hole about the size of a pea. The bones are supposed to be those of Phillips, and the circumstances indicate a foul murder and the disposal of the body by burning. Later. Two brothers named Phillips, aged respectfully 14 and 16, have been arrested on a charge of murdering their father, whose oharred remains were found near Cassilis with a bullet-hole in the skull.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3432, 29 December 1896, Page 2
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136Alleged Parricide. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3432, 29 December 1896, Page 2
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