AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 25, 30 December 1884, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Ct (Per s.s. Ringarooma at Auckland.) (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, Dec. 18. Annie Wilson; aged 18, a servant, was brutally outraged at St. Leonards yesterterday. She was seized by two men, one whom held her while the other ravished her. Both men are identifiable, but no arrests have yet been made. At an inquest on the remains of the inlant child of Mrs Prosser, found m a back yard m Collingwood-street, the jury found there was not sufficient evidence to prove the child was born alive. The accused was remand on the first count of concealment of birth. Mary Ann, a thirteen-year-old daughter of the accused, deposed that immediately after the birth of the child her mother drank porter till she became intoxicated. Two days afterwards the accused took the corpse out of a kerosene tin from under the bed and showed it to her and another Bister, and then put it back into the tin, where it was kept for a month under the bed m which seven of them slept. The other children denied that the body had been kept so long. Melbourne, Deo. 18. In connection with the reported murder of J. B. Stack, it is surmised that Barnes ascertained from a fellow prisoner who had pledged jewellery with Stack that Stack had property worth stealing. The detectives have discovered that two diamond rings and clothes identified as Stack's were pawned by Barnes m various shops m Melbourne. W. J. Thompson, Barnes' fellow prisoner, was discharged last week, therefore the two had opportunities of talking about Stack's death ; and it is surmised that it is from something said by Barnes to Thompson that the latter suspected him of murdering Stack, who it is surmised voluntarily confessed what he feared would become public. Otherwise the confession is disjointed, and evidently not the whole truth.