BUSHRANGING AND MURDER IN VICTORIA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 251, 21 November 1872, Page 5

BUSHRANGING AND MURDER IN VICTORIA.

The Beechworth district was on the 16th October thrown into great excitement by the report that two armed bushrangers hadbeen levying contributions on the village of Wooragee, and that tliey had shot and fatally wounded Mr Wood, landlord of the Wooragee Hotel, and injured a man who was in the hotel, at the time. The facts since elicited " are these : — The men first ttuck up the local Post Office, ransacked the place, obtaining only a few * hillings, and proceeded to Watt's Hotel, where " they knocked furiously Mr Watt opened one of the doors in front of the hotel. One of the men then presented a gun at him, and said, " Come out, you y wretch." Mr v\ a tt turned round and rau towards the kitchon, but before he had $;ofc half the way along the passage, the miscreant tired, and he received a heavy charge of slugs in his side, inflicting a frightful wound : at tbe same time Mr Kenneny, who was sitting reading a paper in the kitchen, was struck by a slug w inch lodged in his arm, while a number of slugs were lodged in the frout of the chimney, which faced the open door. So rapid wa^ the whole occurrence that the party in the house was takcD completely by surprise, and the miscreants were allowed to depart without the slightest interference. Mr Watt died the next day ; but bis murderers remained uncaptured up to the 23rd.