MORE ABOUT THE TOCAL MURDED.

Evening Star, Issue 3730, 5 February 1875, Page 3

MORE ABOUT THE TOCAL MURD ED.

Two man name ! (Gilberts—father and son —have bee i committed for trial for the Paterson murder. It appears the person murdered was supposed to be John Arr ,w----smith, who is employed as a groom at Parties. His mother and her family, who reside at Pungog, had so little doubt that he was the person that they had gone in mourning for him. He, little suspecting that he wan the supposed victim, dreamt that hi- saw hi< moth r in black Win n ha asked her whom she was m mourning for she replied, -l It is for you, as you were murdered at tin Paten-on by these CuPc-rts" Next morning, bong impressed will the voion of the night, he wrote -o his mother for the first time since he loft home, when he received from his brother a letter, of which the following is an extract ; dear brother, I received your kind letti r last night, and am glad to heir from you. i ho letter just came in lime to save a great deal of bother. It was all over the country that it was you who was murdered at the Paterson, for yon was the only one that was missing. The place was ipiite in an uproar about if. | have to <jo to the Paterson to-morrow, on the trial, fm- ; they found a puce of a shirt, ami (l ir y | brought it to .N(d, and he said that it was j a part of the shirt that you took away with j you. They were sure it was yours. Mr J H was thinking of having the men taken up to-morrow, fur he could swear to your features. They have got Tom Cul-

Bert in for the wilful murder of yon, so he will get out of it now.” He received another letter, dated 24th December, same date as the above, from a J.P., in which it is stated : —“lt was thought that you were the murdered man, and you were in all the police gazettes, and telegrams were sent about you to all parts of tha Colony. Your mother was in a great way about it, and had to go to the Paterson and view the head and parts of the dress of the victim.” Still the mystery remains. Could not someone else dream, and either acquit the Culberta or furnish full proof as to their guilt ? This incident goes to show what little reliance is to be placed on the ideueification of either the clothes or features of the murdered party.- - ‘ Parkes Gazette.’