Fatal cases of Typhoid and Scarlet Fever.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 623, 21 February 1879, Page 2

Fatal cases of Typhoid and Scarlet Fever.

WESTPORT. This Day. Typhoid and scarlet fever are raging. Boatman's hospital is full, and fatal cases have already occurred. Means are being taken to prevent the spread of the fever. ALLEGED MURDER. The wife of Charles Sibree, alias " Yankee Charlie," gave information to Constable Callaghan sufficient to warrant the apprehension of Sibree for the murof Thomas Costello, at Boatman's Creek, Reefton, m 1872. At the time of the murder Sibree and another were tried, buc -were discharged. Sibree and his wife have been quarrelling lately. Mrs. Sib'ree's statement goes to show that Sibree struck Costello on the head with an augur, and then rifled his pockets of several bank notes. He then put the body m a canvas bag, and removed it to a hole made by the uproots of a tree. He shifted the body several times, owing to search being made. The circumstantial evidence against Sibree has always been very strong. A hut belonging to a miner named Peter Wilson, at Giles Terrace, was smothered by a land-slip. His wife and two children were inside at the time. His wife and one child were rescued, but the daughter, five years of age, was smothered.