CRIME IN VICTORIA.

Evening Post, Issue 65, 25 April 1865, Page 3

CRIME IN VICTORIA.

Closely following upon the revolting crime, recently perpetrated at Emerald Hill, Melbourne, by the man Staccy, who murdered a child of two years of nge, by throwing it down a water-closet in a fit of drunken jealousy against the mot her, and who Ins been sentenced to death for the foul deed, we have had another murder in the midst of the city. The crime was committed in the Whittington Tavern, Bo irke street — one of those •' night houses" which are the common places of resort of thieves and prostitutes, and a disgrace to our merrorob's. At three o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, the 23rd inst., two men belonging to the clas9 known as " card-sharpprs," or " magsmen," and both notorious blacklegs, were standing drinking at the bar of the pulic house above named, when, in a fit of revenge, arioing out of some disputed division of spoil, one of the men drew out a knife and inflicted a mortal wound in the throat of the other. The man thus struck, and whose name was Emanuel Jacob*, and whose age was twenty-four years, expired before medical aid could be obtained, and the murderer was immediately surrounded und taken into custody. At the coroner's inquest he'd upon the body of his victim, the next day, a verdict of wilful murder, was returned against the prisoner, who goes by the name of Joseph Brown, and he is now awaiting his trial upon the charge.