BLUE MOUNTAINS TRAGEDY
A Shipmate's Sensational Details. Stoney, December 15.
Bailer's Bhipmate aboard the Olive oank a'so gives sime details of Bauer's career in Brazil, He met him at Bio when thq yellow fever was raging there. Batter join d the Olivebmk at that port, when he g t to sea. A-he, as he was then known, aa before stated, said he was in Brazil for three or four years, daring which time he gained all possible inform ation about people with money. These he enticed, when possible, to a lonely spot, and popped them off. Daring the revelation in Brazil, a nnmber of fhp oaptains went up tbe oonnt-y, but never r. tamed, and he believed that Aahe eoold account for their disappearance. Ashe told his companion that the revolver was hi<? companion aad means of livinj?, and whea leaving Bio he intimated his intention of following up bis previous career in Australia, and then make moaej by " pinking " them.
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Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8742, 16 December 1896, Page 2
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161BLUE MOUNTAINS TRAGEDY Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8742, 16 December 1896, Page 2
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