MURDERS, SUICIDES, AND MANSLAUGHTER.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 306, 17 May 1894, Page 2

MURDERS, SUICIDES, AND MANSLAUGHTER.

A CHAPTER OF HORRORS. FILLIS' CIRCUS SEIZED. (Per 8.8. Taluoe at the Bluff.) Melbouhnk. May 9. A Brisbane telegram states that blacks attacked a miner's camp at Batavia xiver, and speared to death Bill Beard, a well known prospector. Two other miners, named Rogers and Watson, were badly injured. The police took the wounded men to Cook town. The blacks took possession of the miners's rifles, revolvers and cartridges. A fatal shooting accident occurred at Newsteßd, a suburb of Launceston, on Saturday evening. Two boys named R. Atkinson (son of the Anglican clergyman and Eoandale) at Morton Douglas were staying with a relative. Atttinson having read in the newspapers about prowlers infesting farm yards, was going to take a pea rifle to bed, and not knowing that it had been loaded by his brother, Douglas playfully threatened Atkinson with the rifle, which went off, the charge entering behifid his ear and going through his brain. Atkinson's death was instantaneous. A Sydney telegram to the Argus states that J. J. Miller, theatrical printer, of Melbourne, has seized the property of Fillia' Circus tor a debt of £628, and Hudson has now claimed the goods under a bill of salt An interpleader action wilt ensue A child 14 months old named Johneon, at Reedy Marsh, near Deloraine, Tasmania, when playing in a yard, fell on a nail projecting from a piece of wood. The nail entering the child's skull, and death was almost instantaneous.