THE CARPENTARIA DOWNS MURDER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3035, 4 November 1908, Page 5

THE CARPENTARIA DOWNS MURDER.

AN ABORIGINAL'S STORY

Received November 3, 7.10 a.m BRISBANE, October 3.

William Wilson, an aboriginal station hand, giving evidence in the police court with regard to the murder of Miss Nellie Duffy, a governess at a Carpentaria Downs station —for which crime Mrs Wilson, wife of the manager of the station, has been arrested —stated that Mrs Wilson asked him to come up in the morning, as she wanted to kill Miss Duffy. He went to the house before it was light, and together with Mrs Wilson, entered Miss Duffy's room. She was asleep. Mrs Wilson had a pocketknife. He stood at the foot of the bed, and accused walked past him to Miss Duffy's head and told him to hold deceased's hands. He did so. Mrs Williams then put a handkerchief to Miss Duffy's mouth and stuck a knife into the side of her neck. Accused held the handkerchief to deceased's mouth all the time, and then took the knife out. Witness went through the whole proceedings graphically in court. Miss Duffy, he said, only groaned a little. Accused, when she stabbed, had her left knee on the bed. Witness, at accused's request, washed the blood off deceased's hands. She told him to wash also the bloodstained clothes. Accused was remanded for eight days.