TRIPLE MURDER IN QUEENSLAND.
• A HCttUxIBLE OUTRAGE. THE FATE OF A BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS. ' $Jji)ite<3 Press Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, Dec. 28. A horrible outrage and triple murder occurred otear Galton, in the Ipswich district. Michael Murphy, aged twenty-nine, and his sisters Norah, twenty^seven years, and Ellen, eighteen years, attended a local race meejting. They left on their return home in a dogcart, at ten o'clock at night. Next morning the horse was found shot dead in the bush, a short distance from the township. The three Murphys lay beside the cart, with their sculls brutally smashed, apparently by means of. a heavy stick. The hands of both the girls Avere tied behind their backs, and Norah had a strap fastened tightly round her neck. Both the unfortunate girls had been cruelly outraged prior to their death. There is no clue to the perpetrators.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6370, 28 December 1898, Page 3
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146TRIPLE MURDER IN QUEENSLAND. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6370, 28 December 1898, Page 3
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