BRIGANDS IN QUEENSLAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 384, 8 April 1902, Page 2

BRIGANDS IN QUEENSLAND.

Tlie awful brutality of the. brigands now being pursued in the back-blocks of Queensland is most shocking to read of. By our cablegrams this morning it will be seen that the horse of one of the missing constables has been discovered. The .horse had evidently got' away from the brigands. In the sad-dle-bag were found the charred remains of, it is believed, incinerated human bodies. This ghastly find js thought to indicate, as it apparently does, that tlie officers of tlie law were murdered, the bodies burned, and that it was intended to carry the remains to some remote point where there would not he much chance of their being found, hut then there happened the unexpected to mar the cunning plans pi the munlerers in the breaking away of tlie horse. It now appears that not only were Die men who sought flight implicated, but that other members of the family have placed themselves under grave suspicion of being concerned in the murders. The back blocks of Queensland have oeen the scene of some black tragedies, but the records can hardly show anything of a worse degree in the way of hushranging than the Kemiif crimes. It is to be hoped that tlie fiends will be speedily captured and made to suffer for their crimes.