BUSHRANGING AND MURDER IN VICTORIA.

Evening Star, Issue 3038, 13 November 1872, Page 4

BUSHRANGING AND MURDER IN VICTORIA.

The Beechworth district was on the 16th October thrown into groat excitement by the report that two armed bushrangers had been levying contributions on the village of Wooragee, and that they had shot and fatally wounded Mr Wood, landlord of the Wooragee Hotel, and injured a man who was in the hotel at the time. The since elicited are these The men first stuck up the local I’ost Office, ransacked the place, obtaining only a few shillings, and proceeded to Watt’s Hotel, where they knocked furiously. Mr Watt opened one of the doofs in front of the gun at him, and said, “pome out, you y wretch.” Mr Watt turned round and ran towards the kitchen, but before he had got half the way along the passage, the miscreant tired, and he received a heavy charge of slugs in his side, indicting a frightful wound 5 at the same time Mr Kenneny, who was sitting reading a paper in the kitchen, was struck by a slug which lodged in his arm, while a number of slugs were lodged in the front of the chimney, which faced the open door. So rapid was the whole occurrence that the party in the house was taken completely by surprise, and the miscreants were allowed to depart without the slightest interference. Mr Watt died the next day; but bis murderers remained uncaptured up to the 23rd.