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Manawatu Herald, 10 January 1903, Page 2

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p COMPLICITY OF A tfAMED KENNEDY.

was created in (Wednesday) by of a report that a had been working on the station was alleged to implicated in the horrible committed at Qatton, miles West of Brisbane, December, 1898, when members of the Murphy family killed l^: : At i3O yesterday morning the yWatchhouse-keeper at the Laffibton cjuay Police Station received a telephone message from the Pencarrow lighthouse-keepers at Pencarrow Head, stating that Mr Waugh, manager of Mr Riddiford’s Orongorongo station, had reported that, as the outcome of a dispute between three men who had been temporarily employed on the station, of them accused another of haviWgheen concerned in the Gatton murder. accused man was a suspicious-iWking character, he had been, detaiWd pending the arrival of the police, Inspector Ellison the chief detective to investigMe the matter, and at an early hourvMr McGrath, with two companions,> started off for Orongorongo. The accused man gave his name as Kennedy, but it is said that when charged with having been known as Massey be did not deny' it. As the road to Orongorongo is not fit for vehicular traffic, and as last night was wet and stormy, it is not likely, that the police will be able to return to the city to-day. No Word has been received from the detectives up to the hour of going to press. When* the detectives reached Orongorongo they soon found that the man who had brought the charge was suffering from the effects of a recent drinking bout. For instance, he informed the police that he had recently seen a large number of snakes, and was quite prepared to believe that what he had reported was the result of a dream.