A COLD-BLOODED MURDER
ENGINEERED BY BOYS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, January 30. Further particulars of the tragedy near Narrandera, show that both Mrs. Warby and her daughter Amy were shot dead. The mother -was proprietress of the Billingbah station. Two boys, Clare, aged sixteen, and Miller, aged seventeen, who worked on the station, have been arrested on a charge of murder. Mrs. Warby was emerging from an outhouse when .she was shot in the head, and died shortly afterwards. The daughter rushed out, and was confronted by the boy with a pea rifle. She turned to run, and was shot twice in the head, and killed instantly. It is alleged that the boys intended to steal the available money, and then burn the house and bodies to hide the crime.
THE BOYS' PLANS.
EFFECT OF PERNICIOUS LITERATURE. Received 31, 0.58 a.m. Sydney, Last Night. At the enquiry into the Narrandera tragedy, Reginald Clare stated he, with the boy Miller, planned to rob the place. He got rifles, and they waited behind a tank until the opportunity, to shoot the victims presented itself.
Both boys had been reading bushranging literature.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 31 January 1911, Page 5
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189A COLD-BLOODED MURDER Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 31 January 1911, Page 5
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