SUPPOSED MURDER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9804, 31 July 1893, Page 2

SUPPOSED MURDER.

[By Sleoteic Telegraph.—CoprsiGHT.] (Per Pbess Association.) London, July 28. (Received July 29, at noon.) Bridgeman (the chief officer) and Jones (the steward) of the ship Dorbridge have been arrested in Liverpool on a charge of murdering Captain Little on the voyage from Newcastle (New South Wales). (Received July 30, at 6 p.m.) The chief officer and steward of fcha ship Durbridge, arrested at Liverpool on a charge of murdering Captain Little on ths voyage from Newcastle (New; South Wales), have been remanded.

Sydney, July 30.

(Received July SO, at 6 p.m.)

In connection with the arrest at Liverpool of the chief officer and steward of the ship Durbridge (not Burbridge as previously telegraphed) for the murder of the captain, the particulars are as follows:—On August 8,1892, the body of Cipt. Little was found in his cabin in the vessel, which had arrived at Newcastle a few days before in ballast from Eio. The chief witness at the inquest was Jones, the chief steward, who deposed that the captain's continued intemperance on the voyage out and despondency had led him on several occasions to attempt suicide, and that, assisted by the chief officer, he locked the cabin to prevent him destroying himself. When the body was found the matter was reported to the police, and at the inquest the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide through mental trouble."