A QUEENSLAND SENSATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9212, 3 November 1908, Page 5

A QUEENSLAND SENSATION.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER

A WITNESS TELLS THE STORY

OF THE CRIME

ALMOST INCREDIBLE DETAILS

Press Association—Electric Tek-graph—Copyright. (Received Tn-dav. at 10.7 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Mrs Wilson, wife of tho manager of tho Carpentaria Downs station,

arrostod ou a chargo of murdering Miss Duffy, a governess, on September 38th, was before tho Court. Miss Duffy had boonfouud in bod, with her throat cut.

William Wilson, au aboriginal station hand, giviug evidence, stated iv tho Police Court that Mrs Wilson asked him to come up iv tho morning, as she wanted to kill Miss Duffy. Ho went up to tho house before it was light. Together with Mrs Wilson ho entered Miss Duffy's room. She was asleep. Mrs Wilsou had a pocket knife. Ho stood at tho foot of the bod. Accused walked past him to Miss Duffy's head aud told him to hold deceased's bauds. Ho did so. Mrs Wilsou then put a haudkerchief to Miss Duffy's mouth aud she struck the kuife iuto her side aud neck. The deceased struggled a little. Accused hold tho handkerchief over her mouth all the time. She thou took the knife out, the blood spurting out. Accused, wlieu she stabbed tho deceased had her left kuee ou tho bed. Witness weut through the whole proceedings graphically in Court. Miss Duffy only groaued a little. Witness, at accused's requosc, washed tho blood off deceased's bauds She told him to wash tho bloodstained clothes. Accusod was remanded for eight days.