THE GATTON MURDERS
A WELLINGTON SENSATION
MAN ARRESTED AT PENCARROW HEAD.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, last night,
A telephone message was received today from the Lighthouse-keepers at Pencarrow Head that two men employed on Orongaronga station had quarrellod, in tho courso of which one had denounced tho other of having been implicated in tho Gatton (Queensland) murders of 27th December, 1898.
The accused man was locked up at tho station, pending tho arrival of the police. Two detectives left the City for Orongaronga. They aro driving to tho place, and as the distance is considerable and rain falling, they are not expected to return before midnight. The police have no details of tho man’s accusation, or of the alleged murderer, who gives his name as Kennedy, alias Massey. Nor are they at the present disposed to express an opinion in regard to tho incident.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 713, 8 January 1903, Page 2
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144THE GATTON MURDERS Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 713, 8 January 1903, Page 2
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