THE MAUNGATAPU MURDERS

Wellington Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2388, 14 July 1866, Page 2

THE MAUNGATAPU MURDERS

APPREHENSION OF THE THREE

OTHER MEN

DESPATCH OF AN EXPLORING PARTY YESTERDAY MORNING.

DISCOVERY OF THE HORSE AND

BAGGAGE

IDENTIFICATION OF THE FOUR PRISONERS AS THE SUSPECTED MURDERERS OF MR. DOBSON AT THE GREY.

(From the Nelson Colonist, June 21th.) TiiA-T the four unfortunate men, who3o sudden disappearance on their way from tho Wakamarina to Nelson we reported in our last, have been foully murdered, there remains, we regret to say, no doubt ; and circumstantial evidence is gathering against tho four persons now in custody. The la^khorse which belonged to the four missing men was tracked on Tuesday near to a ravine about one and a-half miles on this side of Franklyn's FJafc; and then the traces disappeared. Yesterday the horse was found down in tho gorge shot,, with the pack-saddle on and the swags attached to it. Three men, who wero apprehended on Tuesday, as well as the man Levy who was taken last Monday night, arc believed to bo the murderers of Mr. Dobson, and are the men wanted at the Grey on a charge of intending to commit a felonj' on Fox the storekeeper, for whom poor Dobson was mistaken and no doubt shot, and his body disposed of. On that day we reported the capture of William Levy, the man who had visited Deep Creek on Sunday week, and also being his brought before the Resident Magistrate on Tuesday, and rouiauded. Three other men have been arrested who gave the unm^s of Richard Homy Mullin, Thomas Joseph M'Ghee, and Thomas Noon. They were brought before M , Poynteiyon Wednesday, charged with being suspected of waylaying the four lost men.

A public meeting of the citizens has been held, and a large volunteer saarch party despatched to try to find the missing men. Meantime the four suspected men remain in, custody.