MYSTERY AND MURDER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 155, 19 October 1876, Page 3

MYSTERY AND MURDER.

! The Cfrcndagai correspondent of the ijdMif Mwmnif Umtki a;iys :.—" Almost. Ivory old country town has some mya tenons'tale of woe or horror attached to it mil Onndagiu is not an * septum, S-omt «s ago> an officer in true of the crack in E'njdand had to sell out «>£ ho army because of a mhi-tttUmr*, he laving become enamoured of a fair but. rail enchantress. This- officers family ra» very aristocratic, and to prevent «■ raidal, the newly married couple took & «imo to Australia. Tue husband *» a tail handsome man, and it could Ik irooived at a glancu that he was t-v.r> ion a gentleman and soldier, and the wife iu> exceedingly pretty. They settled unit one mile from; CJundagai, near spring rook, and in course of time became postMud of land, horses, cattle, and money, 'rubably recollection of ©ld tinus caused lr. Fiikington to imbibe rather freely, at never in hj» tits of intemperance did i lose the deportment of a gentleman, nu night about four years since, Mr. Islington was in the township- of Gundai;, it was » dark rainy night, and m he dboon drinking very freely, some friend* Iviaed himnot togohome, bat Minted his horse, and on his way ealfea an hotel and procured a bottle of andy. From that night tt> the present iiti Mr. ISlkington hast nevt-r been heard Hi* horse, with saddle and bridle, » discovered the following morning, and »bottle of brandy which was identified forwards, was found near the bftriaJ ound fence w the road to Mr. Pilkingi'» noose- It is not known whether r, StUeington was drowned in atteroptjtacrosa the creek, or whether he was irdered and the body thrown down one tlte abandoned shafts, upon the SpringI* (Jigging*,, through which he had tv »on hiss way home. Such was the brat lot thia dark tragedy; and now come* Uueondand equaily mysterious- affair. *. took out letters of adminWion, but the bank refused to hand sr the husband * deposits, simply best* there' was no> certainty of Me. Pifgtonlt death. A few days, after the posed death of Mr. Pdfti~gton, the a formed an illicit connection wit a ther man, and thas matters went on three years, with no tidings of the sing husband. Meanwhile, everything been disposed of by SSfha. Pilkington. iut a month sinew, t&ia woman informed neighbour* toot she was going to the me with some friend, bat Wie evening

>fe she intended to start site was found ftJarsd in ft ditefc- on tiie hignway, with i skull battered »b, and for this crime a 3 is mm *watt*&g Ms trial in Wagga jjga 'iJfti* woman'* body was tusifcWid aJatoftt * fe* yard* odf where is IBpecfi«<l ner nt»twn«l was murdered jfaturs previoa4?- Tint* ends another tur of a tragetfy ahsooded in mystery possibly mi* new* few ttnraireJiied.