The Oxley Murder.

Manawatu Herald, 21 February 1899, Page 3

The Oxley Murder.

-4 SOME SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE. A SON INCULPATES- HIS FATHER. A Magisterial inquiry into the circumstances, surrounding the death of the boy Hill, the victim of the Oxley tragedy, has been opened. Wilson the man arreettd at Albany on a charge of an unnatural offence at Ipswich, was placed in the witness box, and denied having any connection with the tragedy. Wilson's son, however, a crippled boy, eleven years of age, gave some sensational evidence. Describing the journey from Ipswich to Oxley they passed a boy riding on a piebald pony. Soon after, his father left him in the sulky they were driving, and went into the bush in the direction the boy on the piebald pony had taken, and Wilson's son then heard a shot. When his father rejoined him, he (the father) said he had shot a hawk with his revolver he was carrying. After they reached Oxley the father changed his clothes. Hill's pony was a piebald one. This man, Edward Liton Carus Wilson, who is now charged with being concerned in the murder of the boy Hill at Oxley, Queensland, in December last suddenly dieappeared from the vicinity of the mur» der. He was found to have left Port Adelaide in the steamer Yarrawonga on January st,h, being aceomponied by a cripple son, 10 yeara of age. The vessel called at Albany, and there Wilson was arrested on a provisional warrant and taken back to Queensland. Wilson's evidence is at variance with his son's. He denied meeting a boy on a piebald pony, leaving his eon or carrying a revolver. The inquiry was adjourned sine die. [A man named Edward Liton Oarus-Wilson wa9 some years ago vicar of All Saints' Church, Foxton.]