BALLINA TRAGEDY.
MURDERER’S CONFESSION. TKESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Sydney, July 19. Brown was charged at the Ballina Police Court with murder and remanded for eight days. While he was being brought to tho Court a man throw a stone and struck Brown on the head.
The prisoner in his flight after committing the murders travelled eighty miles in forty hours. In course of conversation with the arresting officer Brown statod that lie went over to O'Keefe’s not with tho intention of murdering them. What he wanted was money and arms. Ho took a bayonet and also a bag tilled with sand and stones. Ho hit tho old woman with the bag, but it broke, and ho then drew the bayonet. hits O’lveefo scroamod for help and tho old man camo to her assistance. Ho stabbed him with the bayonet again and again. Then Gilliok came out and hit Brown with a bottle He then went for them with tho bayonet right and left.
“ I suppose,” he concluded, “ I w: be hung for it.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1813, 20 July 1906, Page 3
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