1889: MURDER AT THE YARRA BEND ASYLUM.
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THE MURDER AT THE YARRA BEND ASYLUM.
The mystery, surrounding the murder of the warder Archibald Hunter, which took place at the Yarra Bend Asylum on Satur-day afternoon last, has assumed another phase.
Joseph Howard, one of the patients, who has all along been suspected of the murder, and who has been kept in the refractory ward ever since, made the following confession to Senior-constable Marks, of Northcote, and Detective-sergeant Cawsey, in whose hands the case had been placed from the first:—
Read at the National Library of Australia: Mount Alexander Mail, Sat 5 Jan, 1889, p 3.
