AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2166, 21 February 1891, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NOTES.

A SHOCKING MUEDEB. Another terrible murder baa been added to the crime records of Melbourne, jealousy being the cause. The murder occurred at Clifton Hill, a suburb of the city, at 11.30 p.m. on the 24th ult., and the victim was a prepossessing woman of 24 named Stella Louisa Marks, and the murderer, John "Wilson, a tram conductor, 23 years of age. The couple were in the Darling Gardens, when Wilson accused the girl of having been in the company of another man. This led to a quarrel, which was ended by Wilson suddenly producing a razor and cutting the young woman's throat, nearly seyering her head from her body. The assassin fled, and the young woman staggered a few yards and then fell down and expired. A man named Swan saw her fall, and rushing up found her lying in a pool of blood.

He procured assistance and the body was removed. Meanwhile Wilson proceeded to his lodgings in Spencer street, where he informed his brother-in-law, Hodgson, and the lodgers what he had done. Stella Marks, the murdered girl, was a daughter of a pawnbroker in Castlemaine, and was employed as a domestic servant in Bt Eilda until recently, when she left in order to prepare for her marriage with Wilson. According to Wilson's statement to the police the two went to the Darling Gardens ?nd sat down together. Wilson then accused Miss Marks of having flirted with a plumber named M'Ewan, She admitted that she had ' been with McEwan, and thereupon her i lover seized her, and dragging a razor | from his pocket cut her throat in the manner described. Death was almost instantaneous, Wilson ran away, and made an effort to cut his own threat, but when he had scratched the skin bis courage failed, and so he went to his lodgings, told his friends of the crime, and then surrendered himself to the police. Wilson said jealousy was the cause of the deed, but he expressed no regret at it. He had carried the razor with him all day. Wilson and Miss Marks were to have been married the following week. Wilson has been committed for trial, A POLICE MISTAKE. A man named Alfred Gauge, a cab proprietor, was arrested at Fitzroy, Melbourne, charged with drunkenness. After being locked up a constable visited his cell, and found him suffering from an injury to the head. He took him to the hospital where the man died the following day. At the inquest it became evident that the case was one of murder. Dr Bracewell, who made a post mortem, said the whole scalp had been dreadfully bruised, and was clotted with blood. The injuries had been caused by repeated violence, and extended all over the head and down the back of his neck. Death was due to those injuries. Deceased's wife does not know how the injuries were received, but said he had been drinkiag, and went out in the evening, and she next saw him in the hospital. The coroner stated there was no doubt the man had been beaten to death, and the police must ascertain who did it. KESULTS OF A JOKE. A boy's practical joke has ended in a very sud fatality. On January 26, which was observed as a holiday in honour of the foundation of Australia, a lad named Pittmnn, who is seven years of age, went frona Footacray wi h some otb»r members of the family to spend the day at South Beacb, Williamstown. He took it io his head to play a joke on the others, and left them suddenly, reaching home about 4 o'clock. Hie mother, finding that be bad the railway tickets of his companions, decided to send him back to fetch them, but on second thought considered h* wbb too young to go alone, and arranged for n youne woman named Ellen Scovell, who was 20 years old. in the service of a Mrs Grainger, to go with him. Mrs Pittman heird uothing more of them until they were found dead on the railway lino. Th-y had got in'o the wrong train by mist ke, and, it is supposed, must have tried to jump out. ' MISCELLANEOUS. Henry Bryant, alias the Count de Beaumont, is oDce more in trouble, being charged with obtaining £2OO worth of jewellery by false pretences. This is the individual who some years ago fabricated rumours of a Russian fleet being about to enter Hobson's bay, and succeeded in imposing upon, the Age, which published his statements. A peculiar fatal accident happened at the Rydal railway station, in New South Wales, on Tuesday last. A man named Thomas Brogie arrived by the Mail train, and as the train was starting to leave the station he attempted to sling a heavy swag, which he had with him, over his shoulder. The end of the swag struck the verandah post, and the force of the collision threw him backwards, and falling between the platform and the train he was crushed to death. HOIXOWAy'S OINTMBNT AHD FllXfl Notable Facts. the annoyances of skin disease, and encourages the development of febrile disorders ; therefore they should, as they may,be removed by these detergent and purifying preparations. In stomach oomplaints, liver effect tions, pains and spaams of the bowels, Holloway's ointment well rubbed over the affected pars immediately gives the greatest ease, prevents congestion and ioflimmation, checks the threatening diarrhooea and averts inoipient cholera. The poorer inhabitants of large cities will find these remedies to be their best friend when any pestilenoe rages, or when from unknown causes eruptions, boils, abscesses, or ulcerations betoken the presence of taints of impurities within the syttem, and call for instant and effective curative medioinea.