MURDER IN QUEENSLAND.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyrigh Brisbane, March 30. A tragedy has occurred at Mackay lock-up. A Kanaka awaiting trial on a charge of murder was in the exercise yard with a number of other prisoners when he got possession of an axo, and attacked and killed a white man named James Martin, The lock-up-keeper, Johnson, entered. The Kanaka killed him. A police sergeant, climbing a tree outside the yard, shot the Kanaka, in the thigh. The murderer entered his cellThe police rushed in, and after a struggle overpowered him.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 854, 31 March 1903, Page 2
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91MURDER IN QUEENSLAND. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 854, 31 March 1903, Page 2
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