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STATEMENT OF THE MURDERER
KNOAVLES
DULL TIMES IN SOUTH AFRICA
DISTRIBUTION OF THE COMMERCIAL BANK ROBBERY REAVARD.
EXECUTION OF A CHINAMAN,
FOUR SEAMAN ARRESTED FOR MURDER. Melbourne, November 13. AVillium Thomas Knowlcs, Avho has confessed to the murder of Mr F. M. Bates, states that ho has committed three other murders and several large robberies. Ho says bo Avas compelled to confess by joining the Salvation Army. Ho has sent the detectives on a lot of Avild goose chases, digging up stones in secluded paddocks, ancl tearing' up a hearthstone in ono house, acting- on his information. He is evidently mad, and his confessions aro not believed.
Some eight passengers, chiefly mechanics, have returned by the barque Leopold from South Africa, giving very gloomy accounts of the state of matters there as far as the industrial classes arc concerned.
The reward for the discovery of the perpetrators of the Commercial Bank robbery has been apportioned as follows:— Suli - Inspector BroAvn, '£100; Detective Mackay, £G0 ; Detectives Nixon ancl AVard, £50 each ; Detectives Considine and Porter, £30 each ; three constables, £10 each ; A. Corbett, £200 ; Maud Corbett, £150 ; Emily Corbett, £-50; Harry Thome, £225; Echvarcl Davis, £25.
The Salvation Army barracks at AVilHamstoAvn havo been placed in charge of Capt. Jeannie AY. AVhite, a young woman from Noav Zealand.
Adelaide, NoA'ember 10. A Chinaman named Mali Poo has been hanged for the murder of a countryman.
Brisbane. November 10
The captain, second mate, und tAA-o of tho crew of the labor schooner Alfred A'iftery, have boon arrested on a charge of murdering a Kanaka on board the vessel at
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3850, 19 November 1883, Page 3
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272AUSTRALIAN. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3850, 19 November 1883, Page 3
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