A BRUTAL OUTRAGE.
A ferocious outrage has been committed in the neighborhood of Sandhurst. The scene of the crime was a place called Dead Horse Flat. Here a man named Samuel Wright had been for some time living with a young girl of 17 in a miserable hut. Having received ill-usage she left his place, and was tracked by him to the hut of a man named Robert West, about two miles distant, Wright, according to his statement to the police, wrestled with himself for some days, but could not resist his murderous inclina* tions. One morning he shouldered his pick, and made for West’s hut. Finding only two females within, he seized the younger one, his late paramour, and beat her with the pick in a brutal manner. Her screams brought a man named Arthur Hagan to her assistance, and Wright struck him to the ground, driving the pick two inches into his skull, Wright was of course taken into custody. It was expected at the time that Hagan would not live many hours, but he still survives ; and, what is more strange, hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery.
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Evening Star, Issue 2968, 23 August 1872, Page 4
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191A BRUTAL OUTRAGE. Evening Star, Issue 2968, 23 August 1872, Page 4
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