A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2434, 6 January 1881, Page 4

A QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY.

We take the following from the “ Queensland Times” of December 9 : Mr Edward Wallace has shown us a letter which he received a few days ago containing an account of a terrible tragedy which happened at Jundah, a township on the Wilson River, and if we remember aright, in the neighbourhood of the Lower Thompson. The blacks attacked the store of Mr John Lonergan during his absence and killed his wife and servant-girl, cutting them literally to pieces. An infant, however, was left unharmed. The attack was a most daring one, as the police camp was only about a quarter of a mile distant. Mrs Lonergan was quite a young woman, only about 20 years of age, and had lived at Condamine for many years with Mr Wallace’s family, of whom she was an intimate and particular friend. She was then a Miss Margaret Coleman ; but after marrying Lonergan, who was also a well-known resident of Condamine, she left with him about two years ago for Rockhampton, and thence they made their way to Jundah, where Lonergan opened a store, and where, as we have said, the cruel murders were committed.