THE QUEENSLAND MURDERS.
PROTESTS BY BURGESS. EXCITEMENT AT GATTON. Brisbane, January 17. Tho man Burgess, who was arrested at Dal by on a charge of complicity in the Gattou rurder, complains that the police • ! endeavouring by unfair means to wc...0 a web of incriminating evidenco around him. The prisoner's clothes are being chemically examined for traces of human blood, and experiments are being made with his boots to see if they correspond in size with the tracks found in the vicinity of where the crime was committed. The residents of Gatton are being kept
in a simmer of excitement. The latest sensation is a lunatic roaming at large through the district, armed with a knife, seeking to kill somebody. The police are in pursuit of the maniac.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1403, 19 January 1899, Page 22
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127THE QUEENSLAND MURDERS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1403, 19 January 1899, Page 22
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