SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 440, 25 January 1890, Page 4

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

TWO MEN STABBED BY AN INDIAN' BOTH MORTALLY WOUNDED. A fearful tragedy was enacted at Penrith, New South Wales, the other day. by which a very old police officer. Sergeant Beatty, and John Zabuliter, a young man, a native of the district, were mortally wounded, and their assailant, a natLe of Bombay, lies ai the pomt of death. The affair occurred a> about half-past one in the afternoon. An Indian had been prowling about the district for seven days, and the ser geant endeavoured to move him out of tintown. At first the man started, but lat» r on the sergeant dhcoveied him sitting on a kerbstone opposite the convent gate in High-Street. He was seen to converse with a man, and after a while picked up his swag, and was apparently going away. All at once he turned on the sergeant, and drawing a lo ig sheath knife from behind plunged it in the sergeant’s chest. The sergeant struggled for a while with the man, who screamed loudly, but the sergeant, becom ing weak from the loss of blood, had to seek shelter in the convent. A crowd soon gathered round. Several tried to secure the Indian, who, however, was armed with scones and the knife. Several lots of stones were exchanged, without, however, doing much damage. Eventually Constable Moseley arrived on the scene, armed with a revolve* 1 , and after calling upon the Indian se'eral times he Hie I, but the cap snapped. The Indian siilt i-ame closer and was dealt a couple of blows stones by the bystanders. The constable fired again, wounding the Indian in the abdomen. Tnen another snot was fired, but still the Indian came on. Two other stones were thr wn and struck t<>e Indian, and he appeared to stagger. Alfred Reid rushed up behind, evidently for the purpose of securing the man, who sudde ly turned round, and with uplifted arm would have slabbed him. At this stage John Zabuliter ru.-hed on the Indian and seized him, and in the struggle he was -tabbed ju b under the left arm, inflicting a fe-irful wound. The Indian was then rushed at, and secured and taken to the lockup. The affair was all the work of a few minutes. Sergeant Beatty died next evening. The deceased sergeant was sensible to the last. All the members of his family, as well as his brother from Woluinla, were piesent with him when he died. Since and before Sergeant Beatty’s death letters and telegr- ms have flowed in fiom all parts, one of the latest being from Sir Henry Farkes.