THE BALLINA TRAGEDY.
ACCUSED'S DKSCKIPTIOX OF | THE AFFAIB. A GHASTLY FIGHT. Stditit, July 19. Brorn fu charged at the Ballina Poliee Court and remanded for eight dayi. While being bronght bark a man threw a itone and itrnek Brown on the K««d. Tke prisoner took flight after committing the murder, and travelled eighty mi lea in forty hours.
* It eoorne of conversation with the arresting ofleer, Brown stated that he went over to OTeefe's not with the iatention of mnrdering them. What be wanted wan money and arms. Hi took the bayonet, also a bag filled with Und-itonef. He hit the old woman with the bag, but it broke, and he then ittw the bayonet. Mrs O'Keef. •creamed for help, and the old man Mine to her assistance. Accused lUbbed him with the bayonet, and then Gilliek came out and hit Brown witk a bottle. Ho then went for them with the bayonet right and left. " I •appoie," he concluded, " I will be Ik tug for it."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8161, 20 July 1906, Page 3
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167THE BALLINA TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8161, 20 July 1906, Page 3
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