THE TRAGEDY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 182, 24 July 1900, Page 2

THE TRAGEDY IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

ITURTHER PARTICULARS. [PEB PBE33 ASSOCI ATION.] Received 23, 10 a.m. Sydney, July 23. I Hilda Mawbey and Miss Korz escaped through tho bedroom window: anc fled, holding each others' hands. After tomahawking tho . others, Jimmy Governor pursued and killed Miss Karz, and overtook Hilda through her falling into a creek.

Mrs. Mawbey, in her dying deposi-; tions, stated that she only saw Jimmy and another black named Jockey in her room. She heard the others outside.

The police are following the tracks o( three blacks, who are showing great cunning in efheing their tracks by walking in each other's footsteps. When fired on some miles from the scene Jimmy raised his rills, but did not fire. It is believed they have no ammunition.

The two Governors are notorious characters. Jimmy is an ex-tracker.

Jimmy's wife states that the tragedy was contemplated for some time, It was intended to murder the Mowbrays. The one who was to do the killing arrived too late.

The murderers declared their intention of stealing horses and going to the Goulburn River to kill three of their own people who, the Governors aver, killed their father. Jockey Porter offered great resistance to his arrest.

ANOTHER 01? THE VICTIMS DEAD.

(Received 23,11.30 p.m.)

Sydney, July 23. ! Mrs. Mawbey is dead. During a conscious interval, she stated that Jack : Underwood, the third black accompany-' ing Governor, killed Percy. Mr. Mawbey says he was on the best of relations with the blacks, who were fencing. They owed him a few shillings, and he refused to give them any more money till they earned it, but allowed them rations.

EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEBT,

Received 24,1.40 a.m.

Sydney, July 23, At the inquest on the victims of the murder by the blacks, Albert Mawbey, aged 9, gave evidenoe that he was awakened by hearing a black in the room, who threatened to blow out bis brains, He slipped cut while Percy was being killed, and ran and informed his father.

George Mawbey, a cousin, aged thirteen, sleeping in the same room, heard Mrs. Mawbey and the girls screaming, and followed Percy into the sitting room. He saw two blacks, om 1 of whom killed Percy. ' He heard the voics of another outside, and recognised ' it as Jimmy Governor's, urging tip 1 others to dnsh out tlmr brains, as he li '.u hid enough of the Man beys, Witness rau to his bedroom and hid under tho bid till tho murderers went. jlVo littlo children with Mw, M*wbey in the bedroom wcro untouched. They slept throughout tho tr.igtdy. Grace esc> pod from the room, bull was cut down just outside, I M iwbry, who was sleeping in another I pirt or the solection, arrived ten I j minutes 'if tor tho inurdore. The blacks j evidently heard him comiuf, and i clo.u'td, | A SECOND MURDER. ! PRESUMABLY BY THE SAME BLACKS. AN OLD MAN KILLED. HIS WIFE DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED. (Received 24, 1.45 a.m.) Sydney, July 23. Information reached town lata tonight that an elderly, crippled named Alex, McKay was killed by two blacks at Sportsman's Hollow, on the real to Uassilis, on tbe M udgea, Mci K'ly'a wife was dangerously wounded. I Tho murderers aro described as idou- . tical \vi\b those who murdered tho : They oarried rillos and ' tomahawks, and had two' horsfs, sup- , posed to have been stolen. Tho scone of the tragedy is in the J direction the murderers wero repjrUd | to be making. I J Great excitement prevails, and a : largo party of armed horsemen arc in j hot pursuit. j