THE MURDERER SULLIVAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 120, 12 May 1876, Page 2

THE MURDERER SULLIVAN.

Th| late¥ jifejb\>urne, papers give full Retails connected with the j release of itjpe murderer Sujjiva^.i It "will {be reimembered^that he Was arrested 'by the . Victorian police ihider t: the H of the "Inflnx of Criminalg Prevention Act." In December, 1874, he waß sent to Melbourne gaol by the magistrates Jill & fining opportunity^ should arrive ffi|r s|tiding?hira to New Zealand. Sul- : "liVan 4 hire sinde remainediri gaol^ though he aßked several people to take up his .case,^with- the view of. either, being sent to New Z- aland or released. was, however, dore till very lately, when a writ of habeas wae granted at the instance of Mr. Kane, attorney. The grounds on which the release was applied for were, .principally, that the act did not . apply to ipereons who were ' resident in the colony of Victoria at the time it was pasEed (1854), and therefore did not apply to the prisoner, who had resided in Melbourne from the years 1845 to 1866 j that the prisoner ought to have been sent to New South Wales (the colony he had last come from),: and not to New Zealannd ; and, further • that he had been. kept iu gaol an unreaaonabla time. His Honor considered the first objection fatal to the prisoner's further detention, and therefore directed Sul(iya^'s\/i)ißchWgeV\:'AftVrV.ttie!\decK aion was given, Sullivan went, back; to,, the 'Melbourne Gaol, collected and ; packed up what personal effects he had, anjd Vlef t the jpf isbij. . As he ha J ;i nb moneys he received the assistance given to ordinary criminals who • are released after ft long/sentence/ ! '! r " !> A Sandhurst correspondent of the. Melbourne Argus, on the 29th April, telegraphs that the murderer Sullivan arrived , in Sandhurst" by the evening train trorn Melbourne on Salurday,.and proceeded to the London Hotel, where he had tea, after which, he left with his luggage, stating his' intention. 1 6i going to Inglewood. It is supposed ' that he joined the iDgjewood coach w h the' intention of proceeding tn Weuderburn,' where his wife resides. It is said . tht^t Sullivan has some property there. He procured -some black hair-dye at a ohemisi's shop at Sandhurst, 1 ; about half-past eight o'clock the same night. J He was well dressed.