A Fair of Desperate Characters.
(PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, This Day. In Pent ridge a notorious criminal named Osborne cut his way out of his cell . with a file, but was overpowered in mak- ; ing his escape. A negro convict named King attempted . to fell the Acting-Governor, and struck | down two warders, who came to the ' rescue, with the leg of a table which he had torn in pieces. He was only secured after a desperate struggle.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 62, 10 September 1895, Page 2
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77A Fair of Desperate Characters. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 62, 10 September 1895, Page 2
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