The Carcoar Aragedy

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 96, 20 October 1893, Page 3

The Carcoar Aragedy

CONCLUSION OF THE INQUEST In summing up the evidence in th Carcoar murder case, the Coroner wen carefully through the evidence, and com phmented Miss Stoddart upon the man her in which her evidence had beei given. He then said— "The case yoi / # Are required to decide is one of the mos painful, dreadful, and shocking, ever re corded in this country or in any other There never could hare been in the an nali of history, even amongst the mos barbarous and savage tribes, a more dia bolical, cruel, bloodthirsty, and bruta doable murder than this one, perpet rated in this quiet little town, when twt valuable lives were launched into eternity by a moat cowardly ruffian. Misi Cavauagh, a beautiful young lady whom we saw lying dead, with her throat cut, had just come tc enjoy herself with her friends, bul now she is lying in the grave. Mr Phillips, who had been promoted, and was on the verge of his departure, was smitten down to the jaws of death by a weapon in the shape of a tomahawk by the hand ' of a bloodthirsty assassin. Through this dreadful tragedy the whole district and all Australia have received a shock, and it will be recorded as one of the foulest cases ever brought before any Court. You, geutlemen, have only one course to take. Do your duty ; you know thit duty. There is no alternative but for you to bring in a verdict of wilful murder •gainst the man to whom alone the cvi dence points all through, and who has been sworn to as the man whose hands, face, and tomahawk were seen steeped in blood and were recognised in the City Bank. Gentlemen, I leave tbe case in your hands." The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder, in the following terms — " We find that John William Phillips and Letitia Frances Cavanagh came to their deaths at the City Bank, jCarcoar, on Sunday morning, 24th September, 1893, through having been wilfully murdered by Edwin Hubert Glasson, commonly called Bertie Glasson, and that be entered the bank with some other persons unknown to the jury, with the intent to rob the said bank." The prisoner was committed to take his trial at Bathurst Circuit Court. THE PRISONER ON TRIAL. (per press association). Sydkky, This Day. The trial of Glasson, for the murder cf Mr Phillips and Miss Cavanagh, is proceeding at Bathurst. Since his incarceration, Glasson has made a state.* ment alleging that two other men committed the crime, and that be was only with them under compulsion.