AN OUTRAGE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 292, 31 March 1877, Page 4

AN OUTRAGE.

The following particular* of the Coonafcarabran> outrage aro supplied by a correspondent of the Mmt<j*>t>- Imtufcwknl! i—"Mary Ann M'Ctngor, an intelligent. Biasing; girt of I*2 years old, had been on Hi vtoifc to a neighbor's, and was returning lurniw when she met a person near l.'tamambri, nine flubs from Coonabarabran, who> outraged her person, then murdered )Mtf r and as a ctim.-x robbed her of her le«r articles of jewellery. Not returning htm** ion Sunday evening, her parents* became- anxious, »nd having sent to t>e Irknd's she had visited, and found f at »b« left there- on Sunday evening, ti ey Itteama seized with a fear for h\ r safety. and alt tha night through a tiilligent •wtreb was made but without avail. JPfcivly-1» Monday morning t. e body of t:t ifefißasv-d was t'ou-.d horidldy hriisad, otie of li«r arm < * broken, a portion of I er nosi-r bitten otf, and a rope drawn so round ntrclc na to he iuUn-dd, d in th> tl>- 3 ■•• The body wns potn'-ed out to hi-r brother ty a shepherd named Thomas iSewman, wlitt W)W* tending his ttocfc elbsir bv. Suspicion having been to Newman, he wa» arrKStid, and on being s* arched Srevious to being eon,veyed to the Coonaorabraii lockup, a brooch and earrings, wlkich were at once ideutitied as belonging t© the dec(;ased r were found upon him, and en a careful search of his hut being made, other articles of the deceased were found concealed beneath his bed. A magisterial inquiry was commenced at the residence of .the father of the deceased, and adjourned to the Courthouse, Coona'fcarabran. Thero is great «xe;ttmjnt prevailing, and deep feeling of hi tro." at the horrible dtath the poor child must, have suffered at the hands of her violator and

mttrcterer. The people are intensely incensed! against Jfewmatv, and tbe police » caa only protect hiuv fnmi violence with 'difficulty. The body i» ptearrved in spirits,, pending the arrival of a qualified medical man ivom t*uelotvg r about 120 milea."