A SWAGS HAN'S MURDER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 57

A SWAGS HAN'S MURDER.

Joseph Daroil (or Frederick Dowsw, which seems to have been his real name), who was formerly a joekay, bufc, being disqualified, became a travelling labourer, w&s murdi red by his mate, Charles Strange, at Cunninghamo (Lakes Entrance), during the night of ' November 7. The two men were making their way to Melbourne in company. Th*y camped near Koadnight's Hotel. The groom at the hotel saw Strange burning some wearing apparel on the morning of Friday, November 8, and Mr Roadnight made a searoh, which resulted in his finding Dareil's body hidden in the scrub. He had been stabbed in the forehead and about the heart, and his head then battered with a tomahawk. Strange was soon arrested. He had do hesi- * tation in confessing to the murder. He is only 22. He says he would have murdered the gtoom who saw him burning the clothes if he had shown any signs of suspicion. He blames his father for ruining his life. " I wanted to bea blacksmith, and my father forced me to be a^ shoemaker," he s» id over and over again — a singular instance of thwarted ambition. Why shoemaker should spsll ruin and blaokstnith not he does not explain.