MURDER OF A MISER.
FOUND DEAD IN A LONELY WARE-
HOUSE.
Shortly before midnight on November 27 a man named George Walls gave himself up to the police at Sunderland, and confessed that he had murdered an old man named O'Neil in a warehouse at Newcastle. The news was telephoned to Mewcastle, and on search being made of O'Neil's warehouse in Lower Friar-street, the dead body was found. The face was covered with" concealed blood, and an old tableknife bent and stained with blood was loosely held in the old man's hand. There were two wounds on the left side of the neck, each three-quarters of an inch long. The tragedy evidently occurred in an upper room of°the building, where there are indications of a struggle, and then the body was dragged downstairs to the warehouse, there being marks of blood all the way down. O'Neil is described as a very eccentric character, and report says that he had amassed wealth which he had hoarded on the premises, in which he lived quite alone.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8472, 24 January 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)
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