MURDERS BY A MADMAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3414, 30 January 1874, Page 3

MURDERS BY A MADMAN.

{From the Western Post, January 13.)

Itr having hepm reported to. the police’on Saturday evening, that a murder had beeri committed at Piambong, a station some ‘few Miles from Guntawong, on Sunday morning Mr George jWarbu rton, < P. M.y proceeded wither in company with Dr Cutting (the Government medical officer), Sergeant Webb, and'a trooper. ;. On arriving at the place 'ol destination, Mr J. H. Cox’s'sheep station, kept by’ Jdmes Cottee, they were informed that three murders had been committed, and a little girl about two years and a-half old seriously, injured. On being guided* to the scene of murder,,a gold diggings on the *W?ka, of; the Hiamtong .Creek,. a -mostlawful scene presented itself., Doym in a shaft, deep one of * the unfortunate ®£^ fc , r ®rV an old man named James Green upwards of sixty: , years of age, waa found alive, in .a, fnghtf]iiljly mutilated state, hav* mg. numerous wounds about the Head and face, and one in particular on the top of the head, fracturing the* skull and penetrating to the brain. On proceeding thence, to a shaft a few yards distant, the body of a man known as “£heGerman*;, was; founfl quite dead. * A rope was applied under his arms, andby the assistance of the men present he was hoisted to the surface, quite dead and atm. when a fearful spectacle pteaented it*eff- AH the left side of bis face and head , '' rere frightfully battered and deformed,; as if the murderer, not satisfied -with depriving the poor fellow of life, had battered his head and. face ima dreadful manner. Assisted by their guide, _ the party , then proceeded njp the diggings on the banks of the creek,' “donsearching,about a little while found; tpebodyqf aoothec old man, named Robinson, formerly ,a jobbing tailor iu Mudgee, lymg on his face with bis bead against a <jnite dead.. On Dr Cutting examiningtins body also, he. found two severe woupds a t ttie back of the head,’ fracturing and penethe £kutl into the brain; and also that the orbital porthn of the frontal bone had been shattered severely. The parties reinained with, the plfi. man Green, who was alive, for some tithe, when Mr James Butler Tolqnteercd to remain with him until a Ca'rt'arrived to rembvq him to the M udgee hospital, .they returned to Cottee’a house, Where they found a Mrs Campbell, whose daughter, a girl : about fourteen-.years old, made she following statement, namely, that a than called Tom came into her mother’s house, and while her little sister was in a stopping position, he made a blow at the child with the back of a smalt’ axe, which providentially did not take a jwjQt.blank etfect. but glanced off obliquely, mflifctinga wound on the badk, of the head near the neck. The girl then endeavored to create an 'alarm by loudly screaming; when the murderer - made off as fast as he could and made his escape, there! being no one in the hut to prevent his exit but the girl and the child. The man who has committed the above murder is supposed to bo mad, and had b2en in the neighborhood for some time. Strange to say, although he was believed , to be a lunatic, no steps Were taken by the residents of the locality, to have him con* fined, so as to preveht him doing damage to himself or others. Green expired in the hospital last'night. Our Sydney telegrams have announced the arrest of the murderer, and that he was found to be insane.