A MURDER COMMITTED TWELVE YEARS AGO.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 122, 9 June 1870, Page 7

A MURDER COMMITTED TWELVE YEARS AGO.

With reference to the case of the man who is now in custody in London, on a voluntary confession of murder committed in Victoria twelve years ago, the " Argus " remarks : — " It is believed that something decisive will

result from the investigations which the police are making with the view of ascertaining the truth of the confession made in London by the man Dyer, of the murder by him of his mate, Gt. Wilson, at the Mai-uiai Creek, Newstead, in 1857. Ou Monday, we learn from the " Mount Alexander Mail," Wilson's remains, which had been interred in the Campbell's Creek Cemetery, near Castlemaine, were exhumed by order of the coroner of the district. Dr. Norman Grow, who held the post mortem examination on the murdered body, was present to identify the skull, which he said he could pick out from ten thousand. There was no difficulty in finding the grave. The record of the cemetery had told that on the 9th day of January, 1868, a body had heen found in the Mai-mai Creek, parish Tarrengower, and that on the llth of the same month it was buried in compartment B, No. 242. The age was set down at 26, the same unknown ; Newbond, undertaker, and Mr. Leverington, sexton ; the registered number of deaths, 1387. At eleven o'clock the top of the coffin, which had partly rotted away, was removed by Randall, and Dr. Grow descended the grave, and carefully took up the skull. His first exclamation was, " That's it." After clearing away the earth adhering to it, two holes were perfectly distinct, as if j made by the point of a pick. There j were two depressions fracturing the skull, as if made by the same instrument. 'It is not positively, but generally understood,' adds the "Mail," ' that, notwithstanding the lapse of twelve years, evidence will be forthcoming of so conclusive a character as to render the triumph of justice a matter of certainty.' "