MURDERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 5

MURDERS.

THE SHOOTING OF A BANK EMPLOYEE. AN ARREST. SUSPECT BOLTED FOR THE BUSH. (BY TELEGEArH—Pit ESS ASSOCIATION—COPYStaHT.) (Rec. October 20, 11.45 p.m.) Brisbane f October 20. A young man named Ross has been arrested in comicction with the murder of J. Muir, aged eighteen years, tho clerk who was shot dead at night by a burglar in the bank at Gayndah. Ross was shadowed by two civilians. While one was absent bringing the police, Ross bolted for tho bush. Tho polico tracked him, and arrested him. Ho had a revolver and a largo knife in hia possession. WOMAN STRANGLED IN LONDON. London, October 19. Esther Prager, a Russian Polo, was found strangled in her lodgings in Bernard Streot, Russell Square. The case is similar in circumstances to that of Emily Dimmock, murdered at Camden Town, but in this instance the polico have been furnished with a distinct clue, besides finger-prints. R. T. Wood, a designer, chargcd with tho murder of Emily Dimmock at Camden Town, was acquitted. The principal evidence against him was that, prior to bis arrest, he gave a wrong account of his movements, probably to avert suspicion. INDIAN MURDERERS EXECUTED IN FIJI. Suva, October 20. Gopali, Dudessar Singh, Motaulol, Ganga, and Khunu, five Indian coolies who were found guilty of the murder of Bon Hall, overseer at the Esivo plantation, Lautoka, were oxeouted. Hall, a single man, aged 30 yoars, was out down by a number of imported coolio labourers. The body bad sixty wounds. MURDERER REPRIEVED. Hobart, October 20. Hudson, who murdered Adolpli Bock, has been reprieved. It was cabled from Hobart in August that, as the result of a quarrel, Hudson, who is 22 years of age, shot a girl named Bradloy in tha back, and with a picce of wood struck Bock, her brother-in-law, fracturing the. lattor'a skull. The girl recovered.