THE BENALLA TRAGEDY.

Mataura Ensign, 18 July 1906, Page 2

THE BENALLA TRAGEDY.

ARREST AND CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Per United l'ress Association. SYDNEY, July 17. Brown was arrested l>y Scrgt. Kane, ill Dunvillu Creek, nil I in- Tweed-].is-inufi' railway. JI »• irnvelled ('ill miles since ill' 1 night of tin- tragedy. lie submitted rjuieily, and admitted killing tin' O'Reefes and C.illick, Excepting lliat lie changed his clothes, Drown, made 110 attempt lo disguise himsi-li or hide. When Kane accosted him. Broungave a false name. (Jucstion-.i regarding the scratches on liis face, lie threw down his swag, and tlngiant seized and liaixlculhil him. J!,then said he might as well make a clean breast of it. Brown confess,'d that (lie swat; contained a blondtsluiued bayonet, and admitted having used it in killing one of the victims. It trnns|rirefl that O'KeWe was smothered with a towel. There were no wounds. Mrs O'Keefc was slabbed, and Gillick's head 'was split open.

A "WHITE AUSTRALIANREVOLUTION. Received .fulv IS, 9.215 a.m. SYDNEY, duly Is. Brown is reported to have told Kmc that he committed the murders with the idea of getting money to start a revolution, in order to secure a "white Australia."