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facts.

As some reflections were cast upon the Native
Police by the report as to the murder of the man
Stone, published in this journal on the 9th, we have
been furnished by a correspondent with what are
stated to be the real facts of the case. They are as
follows:-- On Friday, the 21st ultimo, Mr. M^cMaster
called at the barracks, and said that the blacks were
on his run, and on the following Sunday information
was again sent to the barracks as to the robbing
of one of the huts—the Twelve-mile, on Miclare
Creek. Sub-inspector Armstrong was then away,
and Mr. Dunne the Acting-Sub-Inspector, being in
charge of the barracks could not leave, but on the
morning after Mr. Armstrong's return (Wednesday)
Mr. Dunne started for Blair Athol, and arrived there
on Thursday. Immediately on reaching the station
he was told that the man Stone had been missing for
some time, and the same evening he (Mr. Dunne)
found the body about 400 yards from the Twelve-
mile hut, to which he was running when killed.
From the state of the body and the tracks around it
there is not the slightest doubt (our informant states)
that the murder took place on or before (and not
after) the day Mr. M^cMaster visited the barracks, as
there was heavy rain on that day. Mr. Dunne
tracked the blacks, and in their camp on the Divid-
ing Range between Cotherstone and Leichhardt
Downs, found several articles of clothing belonging
to the murdered man.