AN ATROCIOUS MURDER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 286, 6 November 1883, Page 2

AN ATROCIOUS MURDER.

The following; f'lriher particnlafs^ regarding th-v. murder near; Ha- are from the Sydneyi^MorningAHerald-i-^i-v; Information of an atrocious muHer h&s been received at Deneliquin. The scene of the tragedy is ten miles distant, on the read to Hay, near a place called Pretty Fine. 'Jh9 victim was ja, hawker nam d Myzan, wbo-was returning from Wilcannia to Kerang, m Victoria, where his wife k j eps a hotel... The body was. foun l covered with sheepskins, alongside of a waggon. Indi jat'ons m the vicinity of the wagr ; gon point to the fact that Myzm was m the vehicle when the f^til j blow was struck, and that the body jr&a dragged t-j the opposite si Je of the waggon from the road, and then covered with sheepskins and big 3. The heid -was horribly crushed with a heavy club, supposed to be portion of the root of an adjacent tree, and then further mutilattd -with a tomahawk, which ihas aldo been found. . The police have-as-certained that Myzan was m p'osseesion of a sum of money m cheques,, note-«, Ac, some time previous to the discovery of the body, but no money was found on hion ;A olue has been discovered, and the police are now actively investigating the affair. A man nanaei Jo iwph Gordon was arrested 8t Mathoura on suapicion oi murdering the hawker. The man an sure ci tothedescrif tion I the suspected murderer. was interviewed, and asked to "wh6m he gave Borne of ihe missing cheques, The people by.whpm the murderer was seen m '"company. . with the munderpd"man'Ba i v«* r^it to: see him, wiih the viaw of recognition .^ they will sac him m the cell b -ioreV , being brought befaie^tha Court m the morning. The mari : denies any know- ' ledge of the affair. He states that he came from TiUi'il, near Balranaldj'with sheep, about a fortnight ago, and has. not^been m Deniliquin since. 3?her«* ','. if much excitement over the affair as regards the man's identity.