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SHOCKING MURDER AT MARYBOROUGH.

The murder, reported in our last Australian telegrams as having resulted from jealousy, was committed at Alum, a township some few miles from Maryborough. Ihe perpetrator of the deed yielded himself up to the police. The circumstances of the affair will he gathered from the murderer’s confession : “1, Edward Whittington, of Alma, in the Colony of Victoria, blacksmith, make the following statement of my own free will, and without any promise or threat On the loth of September, 1872, about one o clock in the morning, I got out of bed and I got this man (the man who is dead) Fenigan ) with my wife, in the kitchen, _ He seduced her. I challenged them both with it at the time. He started to beat me. I was in bed for four days. He beat mo with a four-legged iron stand that was at the tire. I was on the door bleeding, when my girl came and said. For God’s sake don’t kill clada.’ He held it iron) over my head, and swore he would smash out my brains if 1 said a word about it. After my daughter spoke to him, ho, went into the bedroom. My wife told him to go home—that he had done plenty. On last Sunday week (29th September) be cam" again. I was in the kitchen by myself, nursing a girl two yerrs old. 1 told him to go away, that he was a scamp. I told him he had seduced my wife. He said he would do it again. He gave me some blackguard language, and I went outside and sat down until he went away. . My*wife came home about lO o’clock same night. She told me she had seen ‘Fenigan.’ I told her that I bad seen him but that I had to get out of his road. He asked for her. I did not see him since, until last night (7th October). My wife was away, and she came home drunk. He came about p,n hour afterwards. My place was quiet. I was reading in the room. He rapped at the door. 1 did not answer the call it was at the back door. My wife went. She told him not tp corue in to-night. He was battering away at the door, and I took no notice till he forced the door open. I took down the gun barrel off the mantelpiece. I struck him in the doorway as he was forcing himself into the kitchen. I knocked him down, and he got up and took up a piece of wood. He followed me about 20 yards in the yard. He went back to the kitchen, and 1 followed him. I struck him In the kitqhen. 1 hit him in the shoulder, apd disabled him. He had a piece of wood in his hand. I put him outside and shut the door ** ‘ The body when found presented a frightful spectacle, as it lay in a small room at the hotel of Mr Taylor. A deep jagged cut was seen on the right cheek-bone, and a wound of lesser severity on the bridge of the nose. A terrific gash about three inches in length, and apparently penetrating to the tkull, was seen on the forehead, above the right eyebrown. On the corpse being turned, a dreadful gash was discovered at the back of the head, in itself sufficient to cause death.

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Evening Star, Issue 3018, 22 October 1872, Page 3

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SHOCKING MURDER AT MARYBOROUGH. Evening Star, Issue 3018, 22 October 1872, Page 3

SHOCKING MURDER AT MARYBOROUGH. Evening Star, Issue 3018, 22 October 1872, Page 3

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