ATTEMPTED MURDER.
Particulars of a dastardly outrage at Kingston, in South Australia, are given in papers to hand by the To Anau. It appears that early on the morning of May 16 a trooper named Pearce arrested a man named Eobert Jackson, charged with supplying liquor to blacks. The man proceeded quietly about two miles, when ho got off bis borse, refusing to go further. Pearce dismounted, and threatened to use the handcuffs. The man consented to go quietly, hut while Pearce •was in the act of remounting he stabbed him in the back w ? itb a large knife. While defending himself Pearce got his hands frightfully hacked about, so as to be-unable to use his revolver. He then grappled with Jackson, who stabbed him in the abdomen, left, brest, bead, arm and thigh, Pearce fell exhausted, and Jackson,after emptying his revolver, left him. In formation reached Kingston, when Pearce was brought in and las depositions taken. The police and black trackers went after the prisoner, and arrested him 15 miles off. When Pearce’s depositions were read over in his presence ho said nothing. It is feared that Pearce is dying.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2553, 27 May 1881, Page 3
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191ATTEMPTED MURDER. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2553, 27 May 1881, Page 3
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