DR. PATRICK MURRAY.

Evening Star, Issue 3179, 29 April 1873, Page 3

DR. PATRICK MURRAY.

Little is known, so far as we (Sydney Empire) can ascertain, respecting Murray’s early life or antecedents, before he emerged into notoriety in connection with the Garl case. He is by birth nn Irishman, but has been many years in Australia, for the most part engaged in the practice of his profession on the Victorian and New Zealand goldfields. His father, as we are informed, was a respectable storekeeper in one of the West Coast mining towns. Murray, after his return from Fiji, and before he was called upon to give evidence in Sydney against his former friends and associates, occupied the position of medical officer to the Sanitarium established at Sandhurst, on the breaking out of the small-pox in Victoria. In his professional capacity in that position he is said to have acted with energy and judgment. When in Sydney he led a quiet and retired life, and was, although said to be of Catholic parentage, a regular attendant at a well-known and popular Protestant place of worship, expressing the deepest penitence for his crimes, and professing to feel the assurance in his own mind that Heaven had accepted his prayer for forgiveness, and that he was a pardoned sinner. All that we have hem able to learn about what has become of him is contained in the following memo. “Dr Murray was last seen iu Sydney on the 20th January last, and now cannot be found. It is generally believed that ho has gone to England. lie has a wife and two children in Victoria, having been married there to a lady who formerly resided at St. Hilda.” So ends ths Colonial history of a man whose name wi 1 go down to posterity as one of the most vile offenders that ever disgraced the annals of any country.