ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY.

Mataura Ensign, 16 August 1906, Page 4

ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY.

ML'KDP.IiS BY A CHINAMAN. lly Electric Telegraph —Copj right. Per United Press Association SYDNEY. August 15. A Chinese to-night running amok at fVnnaiu Hills, killed two boys and wounded a third. Armed with a tomahawk lie first attacked a boy named Ilackley at Hornley railway station. Hockley managed to escape, after receiving a slight wound on the head. Hushing in the direction of Pennant Hills, the Chinese killed a boy named Petlit, aged 11. He then made his way to the residence of a family named Hines, who barricaded themselves inside. Failing to obtain admission, the miscreant attacked and set fire to an adjoining bedroom. A boy named Aitken, aged 15. who was delivering groceries at .Mines', was the next victim, being brutally attacked and Rilled. The police arrested the murderer after a desperate struggle. He is supposed to be suffering from religious niauia.