AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1668, 7 February 1913, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDIES.

, ..' ♦'/,■/ ' ;■'-,. By Telegraph—Prese Association-Copyright Sydney, February 6. William Patrick Cranston has'been committed for trial on a charge of the manslaughter of James Murphy. Evidence was' given that the two men had quarrelled in a cafe, and Cranston struck Murphy, who, in fulling, hit his head on the pavement. At the inquest on William M'Millan, whose body was recovered from Kareelar» Creek, near tho Queensland border, the evidence showed that M'Millan was '£. member of a party of four. Tho three others returned to Kareelah the day after tlio party left,<nnd reported that M'Millan was missing. His death was,found to have resulted from a broken neck, received before his body entered the water. There was no evidence as to how the injury occurred. An open verdict was returned.' William James was committed for trial on a charge of murdering, by shooting, Ralph Albert Chambers. The evidence was to ■ tho effect that in a row in a navvies' camp at Marulant the deceased was shot while letting a vehicle through a fence. James was heard to say he would shoot the first man coming near. Wind hurts your eyes? Severe frontal headache? Stearns' Headache Cure drives it out. Take one wafer in i little water—cures quickly.—Advt. 38