THE CARCOAR MURDERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2561, 28 September 1893, Page 1

THE CARCOAR MURDERS.

Sydney, Sept. 25. Further particulars ooueernirjg tragedy at the Carooar City Bank •J uow that VLr Phillips was- hacked> there being eight w- ]idg Qn his bodv . Mxss Oavaa-- u . B throat was cut .

There were two other females in tl e building, but by means of threats th° robbers terrified ihetn iuto silence.

Mr Philips inteuded to leave for Young on Monday to take charge of the bank there.

Miss Cavanaghhad arrived from Sydney only a few hours before the tragedy happened. The murderers, in order to escape from the township, stole horses belonging to a clergyman and other townspeople. The police and a vigilance committee are still in pursuit. At the inquest on the victims of tho Carcoar tragedy,which began to-day, Mrs Philips stated that her husband heard a noise and went into the bank with a re volver. The burglar, who had a tomahawk in his right hand,demauded the keys. Mr Philips replied that the new manager possessed them. The burglar fell upon him. She rushed to the rescue tore the mask off the man's face and wrested the weapon from him. The burglar regained the tomahawk, and struck her in the face, opening her cheek and severing her tongue. He then again attacked her husband, breaking his spine, and knocking him about terribly. Miss Cavanagh, who had been trying to alarm the neighbors, came to the' head of the stairs. The burglar rushed upstairs and cut her throat with one blow, and threatened the same fate to two others if they breathed a word of alarm. The child was injured in the melee. A second man stood by the whole time. The police have arrested Bertie Glasson, a resident of Carcoar, and a brother-in-law of the Rev. Mr Clark, on suspicion of being the perpetrators. Glasson was arrested in a barber's shop. He was very pxcited, ami paid " I must have baen mad." An incriminating letter addressed to his wife was found in his possession. He was removed from Cowra to Carcoar in irons under a strong escort. Prisoner is well con He left Sydney on Saturday morning. Mrs Phillips has identified prisoner as the man who committed the outrage. Glasson, who is only twenty-five voir* of age, was financially embarrassed. iKwaallw scapegrace oi his family,