PARRICIDE IN QUEENS LAND.
[from otis corbebpond-nt.] [By Telegraph from the Bluff.] BRISBANE, February 25. An old resident of Ipswich, named Michael Considine, about seventy years of age, was murdered by his son, Michael* about ten o'clock this morning. The par ricide, who is a single man, aged thirty one, cut hia father's throat from ear to ear with a razor. It is believed that he intended to kill the rest of the family, but was over powered by his brothers, who kept him in subjection until the police arrived and arrested him. The, mur derer had been drinking rather heavily lately, and was believed to be suffering from delirium tremens. Alter being taken to the lock-up he became very violent, trying to beat his head against the walls of the cell, and the police had to put him into a strait jacket. The murderer has worked as a navvy on several railway lines in the southern part of the colony.
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