THE SHOOTING OF FATHER HEALEY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 274, 9 March 1877, Page 3

THE SHOOTING OF FATHER HEALEY.

re wilt be remembered that on the *>th « *.i»ust, £H7&, Sergeant Foley and /'.mtabto William Townsend, both of £ were in pursuit of a man | IU( L stolen a (pmntity ot tobacco and ~'H un, ,- from a surveyor s camp tn that r lit/ ~)Tl 1:11116 (la -y came u ? l(>u a nrnn at''Deep Water, whom they supposed f ( bu the thief, and, going up to h.s room ■I n„, Elelmore Inn, they called upon hu»i £ «• «*««« "* "!•«', uw S„f. »"■' ,lu: "if al mil wounded Idiu mortally. It subsemiontly transin-t'd that the man who. died Iron, the 'Vf fti'tjley, I'f Wangiiratta, a Roman Latholte /.infi'viiiiui. and the two constables were bri/U lip fit the Atbury Police Court, on „ df murder, upon which they w#re ennnaitted for trial. The trial, how--0Vl!f, lias not yet taken place. ,2io trace o'loiuic-r in mistime for w ioiu t le deceased B |,ot, could bo forud until yesterday. Detective Duncan ami Callaghan, how«vor ycMtertlay morning visited the Meb Ix>uru« Elospital, and there discover, d the furtive tluef. ile gave the name of Kttnry Turner, aged 2T years, and was Ioil«f«l in- the city watch-l.ouse upon the original cl.acgw his arrest having been uuulu by vi.tuo of a warrant duly endoi'soil in t!ie possession of the detectives. Tliu prisoner, who admitted that he was the una in <]U >stion, wilt be brought bef'ero the City Court this morning and re-iniuitli-il. pending the preparaPiou of t.;e wfiiTiuit I'or his removal to New South WiilcM.