A DESPERATE MURDERER.
TRAGEDY OF A PRISON. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BRISBANE t March 30. A tragedy has occurred at the Mackay lock-up. A Kanaka, awaiting trial on a charge of murder, was in the exercise yard with a number of other x>risoners. Ho got possession of an axe, and attacked and killed a white man named James Martin. The lock-up keeper, Johnson, entered, and the Kanaka killed him. A police sergeant, climbing a tree outside the yard, shot the Kanaka in the thigh. The murderer then entered his cell, and the police rushed in and after a struggle overpowex-ed him. »
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13089, 31 March 1903, Page 5
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102A DESPERATE MURDERER. Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13089, 31 March 1903, Page 5
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