TRAGEDIES IN AUSTRALIA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1739, 13 January 1888, Page 3

TRAGEDIES IN AUSTRALIA

(Per Pbess Association).

Bkisbank, January 12.

Mr Fitzgerald, a resident of Warwick, a municipal town situated on the River Ccndarmine, has died from the effects of poison, which, it is believed, was administered on Christmas Day. Mrs Fiizgerald, his wife, and her daughter are believed to be implicated, and have been arrested on a charge of murder. «•

Two youths, named Ross and Riutz, of respectable parents, were found shot at sundown yesterday at the North Toolburra Station. From the position of the bodies it is supposed that Riutz accidentally killed Ross, and then m desperation shot himself. The boys were schoolmates, and were spending the holidays together.

Melbourne,' January 12

A murder surrounded with circumstances of a most painful character is reported from Kerang, a post town of Gunbower, about 195 miles to the north-west of the metropolis. A man named Clancy was beating his son, when the latter's sister remonstrated with him, when the father at once turned on the girl and thrertened to kill her. She ran for protection to an elder brother, aged twenty- five, who seizing a gun, fired twice at his father, the shots taking effect and the wounds proving fatal, The son who had fired the shot at once sought medical aid on behalf of his father and also informed the police authorities of what had happened, when he was at once arrested on a charge of murder.