REEFTON.
! Thursday. The Roeftoa Murder. News has just arrived from a boatman that Mrs Sin tree has succeeded in finding the spot where Costello's body was buried by the murderer. To-morrow the police start to dig for the remains, the ground having been repeatedly flooded during the past seven years, and heavy deposits of silt left thereon. Grave doubts are enter* tamed of the search being successful. Detective Brown and Inspector Feast proceed to the locality.
An Expiobiok.—By Hugo Ferguson, a Western Poet.
The engine groaned, The wheels did creak, The •team did whistle, And the boiler did leak. The boiler was examined, They found it was rusted— When all of a sudden The old thing butted.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3131, 1 March 1879, Page 2
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