The Recent Sydney Tragedy

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 75, 26 September 1893, Page 2

The Recent Sydney Tragedy

SHOCKING DETAILS. ARREST OF THE MURDERER. " | | Per Press Association. | Sydney, September 25. The inquest on the victims of th» Carcoar tragedy lias begun. Mrs Phillips states her husband heard a noise and went into the Bank with a revolver. The burglar, who bad a tomahawk in the right hand, demanded the keys. Phillips replied ibe new manager had possession of them. The burglar then fell upon him. She rushed to the rescue and tore the mask off the man's face, and wrested the weapon from him. The burglar regained his tomahawk, and struck her on the face, opening her cheek, and severing her tongue. He then again attacked the husband, breaking his spine and terribly knocking him about. Miss Cavanagh, who had been trying to alarm the neigh* borhood, came to the head of the stairs. The burglar rushed upstairs and cut her throat with one blow, and threatened the same fate to two other women if they breathed a word of alarm. The child was injured in the melee. A second man stood by the whole time. The police have arrested Bertie Glasson, a resident of Carcoar, a brother-in-law of the Rev. Mr Clarke, on suspicion of being the perpetrator. Glaison was arrested in a barber's shop at Waverley. He was excited, and said " I must have been mad." An incriminating letter, addressed to his wife in Sydney, was found m his possession. He wan removed from Cowra to Carcoar in irons, under a heavy escort. The prisoner is well connected. He left Sydney on Saturday morning. Mrs Phillips has identified the accused as the man who committed the outrage. This Day. Glasson, who is only 25 years of age, was financially embarrassed. He was the scapegrace of the family.