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[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. •>•<• DEATH OF THE BATHURST ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP. LOSS OF THREE LIVES IN SYDNEY HARBOUR. CONFESSION OF THE CONVICT BARNES. EXHUMATION OF THE BODY OF J. B. SLACK. (Received January 16, 9.55 p.m.) Sydney, January 16. Dr. Quinn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst, died suddenly to-day. Cripps, proprietor of the Coffee Palace, who is under arrest on a charge of arson, was brought up at the Police Court to-day and remanded. By the capsizing of a boat in the harbour, to-day, three persons lost their lives. Melbourne, January 16. In order to test the truth of the confession made by the convict Barnes that he had murdered J. B. Slack, who was believed to have committed suicide, the body has been exhumed, and on examination it is fouud that the bone of the throat is broken, leading to the belief that the deceased was strangled and that his throat was then cut.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2610, 17 January 1885, Page 2
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