DREADFUL TRIPLE MURDER AT ROPE'S CREEK.

Evening Star, Issue 4281, 15 November 1876, Page 1

DREADFUL TRIPLE MURDER AT ROPE'S CREEK.

A notice hM appeared in J! our t«lfeoi‘kjJliSw columns respecting the W S ftffi&r of three Ms 1 children, WColmSiV Kone’s Creek, not far diatant.from South on the Western line. The ‘S.M. Herald’reports that the murderer is one William Luxtord, a bushman. Qn Tuesday he was (it is believed) suffering Irord'aempprayy insanity, he wenttdth'e bwTwKert three of his children slept,- ahd'wihle'they were slumbering cut; their rthroats. The names -anAagea of the ehildreniare os follows ;—William James Luxfortdf thirteen yemrs old (hia eldest child) ;-George Ln*. ford, aged seven years; and Alfrfd Uoxford, aged four years. After pfuWtffiig tie children, their father laid them side by side on the floor. On the Wedhesday tmcford confessed at the police-station at Stto the murders or these phlldraa, rendered himself into i onstody..*: ;'iu. ifche afternoon an inquest was hehv wbein <thh Jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Luxford, who was conunitted I! t6 take his trial. Since the death r of his r wife, some two years ago, Luxford (who is in the P run ® ? f though generally wdl hehaved, had been idle, and, -it ir said, utterly regardless of the welfare of his children, Although, offers had been made, since the death of the mother, to take care of the children, the father, it is alleged; refused to let them go, nod ke£t thCinma wretched state at his home. . r :