The Eppiag Tragedy in Tasmania.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4456, 17 April 1883, Page 2

The Eppiag Tragedy in Tasmania.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS TO HAND.

(Peb Pbess Association.) Via. Dunedin, This day. Ogden and Davis, after leaving Wilson, then attacked a line repairer and scalped him. They also murdered Alfred Holman, the driver of Page's mail coach, whom they shot without a warning. They were captured by Constable Phillips, and when they were taken, they boasted that they could have shot the constable and Inspec tor Palmer, whom they covered with their guns in the dark. They were quite unconcerned, and sang Kelly- songs on the way to the lock-up. Lateb. Further particulars state that Wilson, the repairer on the railway line, half way between Epping and Cleveland, had gone to bed at the usual hour on the night of the 9th, and was aroused by stones being thrown on his house. He got up to find out the cause, when he wjls snot by Ogden, who is 20 years of age. Wilson expired shortly afterwards. The murderers then fired through the windows of the hou-e, wounding Mrs Boran, liviug in the house. They; then appear to have demanded money, and Mrs Wilson theu gave them what little she had, amounting io 13s. The daughter of Mrs Wilson, afted about 11 years, said she knew Ogden, and hearing this the murderers took the girl some distance with them along the main road, but after threatening to shoot Mrs Wilson, who followed them, they released the girl. Before leaving, they had set fire to the house, which was quickly burnt to the ground. The acts are attributed not to the object of robbery, but rather to the insane desire for Kelly notoriety. Ogden omes from a bad lot. He was an inmate of the Hobart Reformatory, and is suspected of perpetrating the recent cases of sticking up.