MURDERS IN AUSTRALIA.

Colonist, Volume XLVII, Issue 11433, 12 September 1905, Page 4

MURDERS IN AUSTRALIA.

ReceiAed September 11, 9.40 p. rnj£ ( v^^jtesSJ^epteihber 11. The mad Done, who was on bail upon a- cfi^ ,^^%a_tte'ijipting to shoot bis wife I&§ar Coonamble, as well as bn a cnarge of cattle Z t stealing, shot at a mad named Harris, of whom he was jealous, seriously, wounding him. He then went tosthe Quill^ bone Staton, and shot dead the owner, Patrick Veech, whose cattle Lorie was accused of stealing. Lorie is still at large. Melbourne, Septmber ±1. Constable Scannell, stationed at Sandringham, has murdered his wife and three children, He battered their heads with a pickaxe, and shot them with a revolver, and then shot himslf dead. He was brooding over imaginary troubles.