CAPTURE OF TASMANIA MURDERER.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 364, 19 April 1861, Page 3

CAPTURE OF TASMANIA MURDERER.

The miscreant Healy, whose murders were detailed in the Mercury of the sth instant, has been captured. The Launceston Examiner says :-—" Just now the miscreant Scotty has completed his career. He is no longer at large. The neighbourhood breaths lighter; a burden is removed from a hundred hearts. Guns and pistols have blown off their load; the spell of blood and murder broken, and the mean and cowardly wretch is in the grip of justice, and this night he spends in * durance vile.' About one o'clock p.m., while Mr. Bell was selling off the goods of A. Sutherland at the Tasmania Inn, the news arrived that Scotty was in the grasp of Mr. Gatty, about a mile away. At once the road was filled with horsemen and footmen, women and children, all wishing to get a sight of the object of their disgust. The auction was deserted; bidding, buying, and selling were suspended, and soon the excitement culminated. The woman and child murderer hove in sight. He looked lean and haggard, with scowling face and lank hair, one leg of his black trousers torn off from the knee downwards; showing only the lining; presenting altogether such a sight as I hope I may not see again in a hurry. As he passed within a few yards of the two graves filled with his victims, he was mouthing out blasphemies, threats that he had intended to have executed; predicting his doom, and speaking as flippantly about h 1 as '■ of the log that hid him from his pursuers. There he stood, red all over with his brother's blood!—a confessed, a double murderer, speaking of what he had done, and what he intended to do, with a free and flow of expression such as might be expected from a huntsman in at the : death, when he speaks of the fox. He appears to have lost everything that is human but his shape, and ; to be as deeply demonised as the possibilities of life and time will permit. When he reached the inn, the mob would have given him a rough reception had not Mr. Smith, C.D.C., showed his revolver. He stood unmoved, his cheek never colored, his voice never faltered; amidst a wave of excitment as intense as can be conceived, he presented an iron indifference, and told the tale of blood, his escape and capture, with all the flash slang of his class, and with a stoney impenitence not to be described. Scotty made his appearance about, midday near Mr. Gatty's, on the Kilmore estate, belonging to Mr. Ranson. Gatty caught sightof hirri, ran home for his loaded gun, and gave him chase, and soon put him beyond the possibility of further mischief He is now in wfa keeping^