WESTPORT.
Thursday. The Buller Murder.
Mrs Libree's statement goes to show that Libree struck Costello on the head with an augur, and then rifled his pockets of several bank notes ; then put his body in a canvas bag, and removed it to a hele made by an uprooted tree, and in the morning he shifted it into a culvert; but hearing search was to be made, again removed the body back to the hole in which he had placed it previously, and covered it in. The circumstantial evidence against Libree has always been very strong. To-day, a hut belonging to a miner named Peter Wilson, at Giles' Terrace, was smothered by a landslip. His wife and two children were inside at the time. The wife and one child were rescued, but the daughter, five years of age, was smothered.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3124, 21 February 1879, Page 2
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139WESTPORT. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3124, 21 February 1879, Page 2
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