AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume V, Issue 1, 29 November 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

7^; Terrible Fatal Accident. "■ s *" Singular Attempted Suicide. The Warrnambool Chili Murder. (.Per s.s. Hauroo.| Sydney, November 2*>. A-youth _ttmed'A__rbw-Tffe?son ,, "l4 veavs of age, son of Awitp? Merson, a van proprietor, residing at Chippendale, hasrhisen ktHediir tJoWe^Se_bßoT'lalling oyer a precipice 100 feet deep near the Woollahra police station. _>r Quaife, who was called m and : examined the body, is of opinion 'that death must haye been 'irisTaiitarieous. It-would .seem that deceased' an_~ two boya, named respectively Fan-oil and Burley,/ were playing' near '^he precipice, when deceased, going too close, stepped upon the 'etrgo .iind rolled into the abyss. His terribly mangled bod y was removed to the home of his father A man named William Thresher, 47* years of age, and residing at 9,2; Gteorgestveet, attempted to commit 'suicide m a very .peculiar ... manner ;4 9; $|,<>. fewer domain. Two gentlemen observed him beating his head savagely with a'.da.ge stone. Police consiable Hack'ett was called apci $><& % Tf >ul(|-be .selfmurderer fo thelb-piiaH, 1 where a large contused wound 2in bug, which Met freely, waa dressed, i f Haskett then took Thresher to the police office It appears that after beating his head and the interference of ch;e twop gentlemen, Thresher attempted to got into the. sea m order to drown himself. Melbourne, -Nov. 22 The selector Morgan, who has been arrested on a charge of outraging and murdering a child named Margatet Nolan at Warrnambool, is reported to have been intpxicated-atihe time-he was i' 'seen with' the^girL' W'tfada kniufwith ' him, : an* »!&£*_*,. fc J u ff was ffouhdJa spWofbK__.^ fig is tbe L father of 14 children. The knife with * s whii-hithe; child, %yffsmnrder^ h^beon found, and identified^ having belonged to Morgau, the prisoner. i .•; ; ,St, Stopbtfn> Ch^eh^Ee^tod,. was burned down yesterdays,] ; iThe origin of the fire is unknown.