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were employed to cut tracks through
the bush.
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the bush.
Clew of Silk Sash.
1t was in dark ravine, at the foot of
an immense precipice falling hundreds
of feet sheer from the road, that one of
the searchers found netted crimson
silk sash, such as almost every digger
wore in those days by way OF trousers
belt. 1t was not much of cleW in
itself; but it stood to reason that the
sash could not have got to such a place
by accident.
The whole of that ravine was then
carefully examined, and at length
there was found in the densest part OF
the thicket, at the foot of the precipice.
a mound of branches and leaves and
earth that had not natural appear
ance. Upon these being removed the
searchers underwent thrill OF aston
ishment and excitement on finding the
body of horse with bullet hole
through the head. Three other horses
were discovered, similarly buried, close
to the spot, and were at once recognized
as the horses which Felix Matthew and
his companions had ridden OH the day
when they were lost.
Higher up the ravine, more than
mile from the horses, freshly turned up
being baffled for some time. the search
ers removed heap of rocks and moss,
beneath which they discovered the
bodies of the four men. They had all
been strangled, and from the appear
ances the cruel deed had been COM
mitted with Melted silk sash, like the
one that had been found.
An Almost Inaccessible Ravine.
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derers had purposelY chosen seeming
ly impossible place for the concealment
of their victims, whom they had led by
a roundabout way through the tracklesS
forest into the ravine, after forcing the
horses ever the precipice. Returning
towards Nelson, the search party spent
some hours examining the scrub and the
ground near the old sailor s-Shanty, and
their labors resulted in the poor old
mans body being disinterred from a
shallow grave about half mile from
his humble home. He, too, had been
Strangled.
Such cloud of impenetrable mystery
hung over the whole affair that nobody
felt safe for an hour. No one dared to
travel, and so great was the anxiety in
the city that business was almost sus-
pended. A reward of $4,000 was Of
fered for the detection of the crime and
| a free pardon to any one OF the crlml-
nails. not being an actual murderer. who
| should inform against his accomplices.
| The truth came out in a very simple
way, as it usually does. Kempthorne.
the murdered bank clerk, was known
| to have taken with him from the Deep
Creek branch a roll of Bank OF New
| Zealand notes, the numbers OF which
MANA onforod ooncaoptivalV in the
| books. These notes gradually came
| back to the bank at Nelson, and in
| auiries being followed up, every one OF
| them was traced to one or another OF
four men living at different hotels or
| boarding houses in Nelson. They were
very quiet, inotfensive looking fellows,
| of the digger type. One was apparently
| a Jew. They seemed to be merely tax
| ing a spell in town, like thousands of
others of their class, and it could not he
ascertained that they had any acQualnt-
ance with one another.
The Evidence at Last.
At length one of the four suspects be-
ing sick, and having no ready money to
pay for his board, asked fellow lodger
to take small bag of gold dust to the
bank and sell it for him. The man
readily consented. No sooner had he
laid the bag of gold on the bank scales,
a police agent, who noticed that the
bag. which was made of chamois leath-
er, had on it the letters II. l., the I'M
tails of Henry Lamont, the murdered
storekeeper, while the weight of the
gold was found to tally exactly with the
weight of one of several bags of gold
entered on Lamont's book at Deep
Creek. The man having told the bank
er where he got the gold, police agent
returned with him to the boarding house
to see the sick man. He was found to
be one of the strangers who had had
Kempthorne's notes, and all four OF
them were at once arrested. The same
night one of them turned the Queens
evidence. They proved to be four Aus
tralian convicts and desperate crlmi-
van and Levy, Sullivan being the
ipformer. They were put on
trial, and through Sullivan's evi.
dence no fewer than twenty-five MUIR
ders were brought home to them. Bur-
CESS then confessed to several other
murders which Sullivan had never
mentioned, but which he had actually
committed with his own hands; and the
necessary evidence having been OBJ
tanned, he was also condemned to
death.
A Man of Great Ability.
Burgess, who was said to be natur-
al son of the celebrated Earl of Cardi-
gan, who led the light brigade at Bala-
klava, was man of ability. Burgess,
Kelly and Levy were hanged at Nelson.
Sullivan's sentence was committed
to penal servitude for life; but
some years afterward he was released
and his passage was paid to San Fran
cisco, where he kept a saloon and lived
respectfully enough. His reputation got
abroad, however, and he fled to Aus
tralia, where he is believed to have been
quietly put to death by some men work.
ing with him in the bush, who had
ascertained his identity.
The most interesting part of Sulli-
vans evidence to me was that which
led to the discovery of the bodies of the
two Franklyns close to the camp where
they so Hospitality entertained me and
my poor little thoroughbred that
wintry night. They, too, were
strangled-Levy being the execu-
toner and being forbidden by his relig-
ion to shed blood within very few
hours of my parting from them. When
I heard Sullivan coolly describe the
deed, adding that the gang killed every
one on the road that night, it gave me
a sickening Qualm to think what hair
breadth escape had had from being
one OF the victims of the Holy Noun
tain.