The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1880.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 26 November 1880, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1880.

The shocking murder which is announced in the telegraphic columns of this issue will create a feeling throughout the Colony of sympathy for the unfortunate victim and her friends. The wretch who perpetrated the revolting deed, it is suspected. is guilty of a double crime. The poor youn? lady is now beyond recall, having died a death the horrors of which could scarcely have been more aggravated. "We shall all feel regret and sorrow because of the occurrence. In doing so we shall bring into exercise the purest attributes of humanity. But we must go still further. We must feel indignation at the perpetration of the foulest of deeds, hunt out the perpetrator, and satisfy justice. The powers mu3t use every endeavor to secure the limitation of the liberty and life of the being whose instincts are so vile that language fails to give him a name. He must not be allowed to escape like the savage murderers of Todd, Sullivan, M'Lean, and Moffat. There is nothing political in the circumstances surrounding the event that deprived the innocent Miss Doble of life. The hand that did the deed was not black. There is, we think, not a Maori who would not- feel shocked and insulted if charged with such horrifying cruelty and meanness. The Government need not fear therefore that an investigation of the occurrence might lead to further epibroilment in regard to the native question, and permit this deed to go unavenged like the murder 3 of those men who were sacrificed on the altar raised by a temporising and corrupt native policy. Keen-eyed detectives should be on the spot and in every centre of population surrounding it. Some man will probably be found missing from the ranks of the West Coast road makers ; he will be traced by thp sleuth-hounds of the law, and made to answer for his crime. The perpetrator of such a deed could not exist ! amonsst a comrades. The deed' etsf* a -'f > :!S' ici'-n ■■ -cr the he.ads j 900 honest men. ff>r tin-re cr.:;n be more • than one wretch in :t tlu-nsaii'l who would ; thus ill-treat an inuocent woman, and j then cruelly murder her. Every innocent roan will be a detective. Night and day—like true Britishers—they will keenly watch till discovery clears them of a terrible stigma, and satisfies justice. Since writing the above, a telegram has come to hand stating that a man named Stannard has been arrested on suspicion of having committed the deed. If the suspicion proves correct, our prognostications that the murderer is a European, and that he would soon be discovered will be borne out.