Bush Tragedy in Victoria

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 112, 14 March 1891, Page 4

Bush Tragedy in Victoria

M EipovpirE. February 24. | An awful bush_tragedy was enacted at TaiViethri?i£, about fourteen miles from HealeSiville' on the 2ls>t inst. Some distance from a local inn known as liiack Spur Hotel an aged couple named Davies resided, at a very lovely spot. _At noon Mrs Davies was found murdered in her bed, her head nearly severed from her body iiLd hfir-hufcbaud was found in a like condition .thrust away under some torn near the roadside about half auiile honr the house. It is supposed plunder was the object of the crime, as the ohl man had been known to boast of~money he had accumulated, and which^he said he kept at home. From'all.the indications it is thought the wife murdered as she lay asleep in 'bed while her husband was putting- up,- his horse after returning from the,/loc_al hotel. Theu Davies, seeing a strauge man come out of his Ju)UBe r follawed him on the road with an axe\ . t'Afjter going some distance the murderer tum9d on aim, got toosßessi)n;o/the axe, and u'-ed it lo kill D vies, afterwards draggiug 1 the body .under the ferns. No cl ue "to the muiderer (has been asceuained, but black traclters, ttoopers, and police are scouring the country, and no stone will be le_'t_ unturned to feri'ng "the* perpetiater of the dastardly crime to ■iriaHnft .