THE ST. KILDA MURDER.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 438, 8 April 1890, Page 3

THE ST. KILDA MURDER.

A NEPHEW MURDERS HIS UNOLE. A GALLOWS’ JOB. Mxlmubsx, March 25. A great sensation was caused last night at fit. Kilda, by the murder of a young man named George May. naniNO the mcbdxbeb.

The police, having removed the body, at once held a consultation upon the‘different facts in connection with the case. Detective Carney decided that the beat thing to do was to search the house to see if anyone Inside the dwelling knew anything of the deceased, or whether or not he had been in bod that night. At this juncture a bystander, one Galvin, called Cawaey aside and said“ I went into the house to break the news to them, and Mrs Bennett said • Good God, I hash'd someone ran in here 1" Detective Cawsey asked who she was, and was told that she wm the sister of the deceased and the mother of John Henry Bennet, the nephew of the murdered man. The police at once entered the house, and proceeded to interview each of the inmates separately. The utmost coolness wm exhibited by them all. Nover a remark wm made except in the most commonplace tones, and this fact led at ones to th* suspicion that some of them had been concerned in the affair, or else knew a little of it The brother wm asked how it was be failed to recognise the deceased, but made some reply to the effect that he was in haste to inform the police of what had taken place, rather than that any time should be lost in looking at the body. Besides, there wm a natural dislike to interfering with a person who had mat his death only a minute before The nephew wm next told io some forward. He did SO with gnat rdiMtaMo, and appeared to to m nlky and to littlldisposed to answer any •Outten that Oawsej eeuebt bold of him

about it? Speak, and it will be better for youf After a further hesitation he answered slowly, ‘ Will it be made any lighter for me if I tell the truth ?’ Cawsey replied that it would be very much better for him in every way. He then answered : “ I DID IT.” “Ton?” they asked. “Yes, me,” he replied, hanging down his bead, and then looking up suddenly again answered, “ I shot him—l did it with a revolver.” “ What for ?” was asked. “ Well,” he said, “he struck my mother, and I shot him. Do not tell mother until I am in the lock-up.” He was then removed to the St. Kilda watch-house, and on the way there he exhibited the same morose demeanour, and exclaimed “ Well, I suppose this will be a gallows’ job fob me, but he w&s always ill-using my mother, I hated him; he struck her, and I did for him.” The prisoner stated that he had bought the weapon a fortnight ago, and was determined to carry it about loaded until he could get his chance to shoot his uncle for what he had “ done to his mother.” He is quite a lad in appearance, and was 16 years of age last May. He always bore a good character, and did not drink, although at times he was violent and of a demeanor in which a vicious temperament made itself manifest.