The Tasmanian TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 110, 17 April 1883, Page 2

The Tasmanian TRAGEDY.

THE BOX MURDERERS. THE KELLr.^JANG EMULATED FURTHER PARTIOCTLAItS, (by elect aic tblbgraph. — copyright.) (EBOTKB- 3 ' TBiBGRAMS. ) . Launcbston, This Day. The following are additional details of the Tasmaniau tragedy. The two youths, Ogdea aad Davis, after leavingWiigon[sy attacked a line-repairer and scalped him, aad also murdered Alfred -Holmari, the driver of Page's mailcdach whom they shot without warning. They were captured by Coastable Phillips and two settlers. When taken they boasted they could hate shot the constable and : Inspector; Palmer, whom they covered with their guns m the 'dark. M"«-;r : «<f:v.---.-r.vv *.-. •..::'! "-■ They weref qm i& s unconcerned, r and saDg Kelly -songs' on the way to .the locksnp. Particulars regarding the Epping tragedy says that Wilson, a repairer on the rail way, who lived halt way between Epping and Cleyelanj, had gone to bed at the usual hour on the night of the 9th. He was aroused by stones being thrown on his house. Ha got up to fiad out the cause, when he was shot by ■ 'g len, who is 20; years pf r age. .Wi^on died shortly afterwards. The murderers then fired through the windows of the house, wounding Mrs.Boram, who was living m the house. They then appear to have dernmded raoaey, and Mrs Wilson gave them what little she tad, amounting to 13 shillings. A daughter of Mrs Wilson, ai»ei about 11 years, said she kheiw Ogden, and hearing this the youths took the girl some distance with them along the main road, but after threatening to shoot Mrs Wilson, who followed them, they released the girl. Before leavmg,tbey had set fire, to the ! house which was quickly Burnt to the ground. The act is attributed not for the object of robbery, but rather for an insane desire for Kelly notoriety. Ogden t cumes from a bad lot, and was an inmate of the Hbbarfc reformatory. He is suspected : of perpetrating the recent cases of sticking-up.