The Ballarat Murder.
[Per Press Association.] Melbourne. March 26. A shocking crime, of an extremely brutal nature, was perpetrated on Tuesday afternoon in the vicinity of the Ballarat rifle butts, the victim being a married woman named Johanna M'Carty The scene of the tragedy is a thinlypopulated part of a wild and uninviting locality. The murdered woman was the wife of Mathew M'Carty, who makes a living by, wood carting and labouring. There are two sons, John and Thomas, and a daughter Ellen, and with the exception of Thomas, the family came into Ballarat to take part in St. Patrick's Day festivities. Thomas remained to do some work about half a. mile away. When he entered the dwelling at dusk, he was surprised to find that his mother was absent and no preparation had been made for the evening meal. In the cowyard he found her lying on her back in a pool of blood, her head beaten in, and hacked in a most revolting manner, as if with an axe, and the bones of the left ieg apparently pounded with the same weapon. Two women, Bridget Shearman and Alice Trait, were arrested on suspicion. Nothing of an incriminating nature was found in the possession of the prisoners. — Post.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 226, 27 March 1896, Page 2
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209The Ballarat Murder. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 226, 27 March 1896, Page 2
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