COSTELLO’S MURDERER DISCOVERED.
[By Telegraph.] (per press agency.] W rstport, February 20. Charles libree, alias Yankee Charlie, was apprehended yesterday on the statement of his wife that he was the murderer, as was always suspected, of Michael Costello, up the Buffer some years ago. It appears he had been thrashing bis wife, aud in revenge she went straight to the police and gave a full account of the murder, brutal in its details. She had helped to re-bury the body three times to elude the police when search was made for it at the time. Mrs Libree’s statement to the police goes to show that Libree struck Costello on the head with an augur, then rifled his pockets of several bank notes, put the body in a canvas bag, and removed it to a bole made by an uprooted tree. On the following morning be shifted it into a culvert, but hearing that s arch was to be made, be again removed the body back to the hole in which he had placed it previously and covered it in. The circumstantial evidence against Libree has always been strong.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1563, 21 February 1879, Page 3
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