Confession of Murder

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 119, 24 March 1885, Page 3

Confession of Murder

lacpeeter Kennedy, of the detective fore*, keys the Afte, k'as reeeiv ed trem the police authorities at Brisbane a telegram enquiring if aayjkiaf was known there of • moider said to kave bee* committed Mtr Castlemsine is 1855, in wbieh j«sr • mm aanid Henrj Tkomu B»rtl«tt njctoirioMij diMppeued. ■ It mnm thftt •a oiabaua i^aed Eiebftrd Hsrfff Gor4<w, if^fyrfrij rwided *t C— tlem»tif faM given hiaf«lf«p to the polio* mt H«fm«mdem,ia Northers QaeeMlaad, and : bM eon^iMfl^ to beii^c Bartlett'i mart dttt. 'AoeordingioQordoa'ioiraiUte■Mat, he sad Btrftlftt were mates, workill toj^h«» U • eUim. Th*j had «a aagrydUpute abomt tkit »ro>ertj, and tk«Mialt was, that Bartbtt wai killed by Mii'^oinpaiiiip, Gordoa mj« k« Uri^f#^ett'« bodj ia «a «U driw •ot far from their claim. After commit*. i tag 'tfMMmme, lie jmrntawayto Jfe^r BoUtk Wait*, aid from thence to Qae*ail*Bd. Tber«doeiaotapp#«rtobe any record ia tk« deteetire office^ of aay taeh crime and eWn «t; Cartlenuune the rMulti of ' In«i»e«iot ionaedy'i inqairiet do not lead to aay elucidation of the myttery, aa aothiaf v knomi there of Bartletfi murdVr. tu»i>e«tor^C«inedy wm himwlf U CMtlemaiao in 1855. hat bo fever keardofßartlfU, ner of Gordoa either, batin tkaie early dayi the ditappaaraaeo of a ouui nit matter of almost every day oeoaraaee, *b<l attracted little netiee from the Mthoritiei anleli circumiUnce «fa autpieioai aatare were known in «oßßoetfott wtih it., Intkoiamo year a ■mrder^WM broof kt to lieh* in Cattle* ■aiao by the dieeoTery of the body of a yoaßf-fifiima drive, and a Chinamaa with whom tit>- girl had lived, and in «hoM r «om^n/ the was la«t aren, wae haageel tor lie' crime. Thie eonfeision Gofdop'ev^rkiek-it very circumstantial awy be quite true, and may- pbnibly bo tbo meaae of bringing to litiht another of &• iSan^dark flMda »aid to hare been \ pwi^a^jath* early day* of the diccinc*. ■ ■■ • - " f -- : ■■ Ui ••■■•■•■-•-•■ : - ■'