MURDER IN QUEENSLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 267, 4 November 1908, Page 2

MURDER IN QUEENSLAND.

AN ABORIGINAL'S HORRIBLE STORY. MISTRESS AND GOVERNESS. Brisbane, November 3. At the trial of Mrs. Wilson, wife of the manager of the Carpentaria Downs station on the charge of murdering her governess, Miss Duffy, William Wilson, an aboriginal station hand, in giving evidence, stated that Mrs. Wilson asked him to come up one morning, as she wanted to kill Miss Duffy. He went up to the house before n was light. Together with Mrs. Wilson he entered Miss Duffy's room. She was asleep. Mrs. Wilson had a pocket knife. Witness stood at the fool of the bed. Accused walked past him to Miss Duffy's head and told bim to hold deceased's hands. He did so. Mrs. Wilson put a handkerchief to Miss Duff's mouth and then stuck the knife into the side of her neck. Deceased struggled a, little. Accused held the handkerchief over her mouth all the time. She then took the knife out and blood spurted out. Accused, when she stabbed Miss Dully, had her left knee on the bed. Witness went through the whole proceedings graphically in Court. Miss Duffy, he snid, only groaned a little. Witness- at accused's request washed the blood off deceased's hands. Mrs. W'ilson also told him to waßb. tho bloodstained clothes. Accused was remanded for eight days. "