Preece Family Tree

Supposed Infanticide.

Richard Crossing, late storekeeper, Mudgee, and Bella Crossing, are strongly suspected of being concerned in the murder of an illegitimate child, the offspring of Bella Crossing, at Mudgee. Richard Crossing is about 55 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, stout build, fresh complexion, blue eyes, grayish hair and beard, large teeth, probably some deficient, slightly deaf, rough spoken; an Englishman; generally dresses in tweed. Bella Crossing is 18 years of age, 5 feet high, fair complexion, fair hair worn in ringlets, mole on cheek near nose, rather good looking. The most pressing inquiries should be made to trace these persons, who may have left the Colony. Warrant issued by Mudgee Bench, but the body has not yet been found.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 22nd March, 1872.

INFANTICIDE. - £100 REWARD.

Whereas on the 20th and 22nd ultimo, the charred bones of an infant were found in a paddock at Mullamuddy, Queen's Pinch, Mudgee District; and whereas at an inquest held on the 4th instant, before J. W. Lees, Esq., Coroner, the following verdict was returned, - "That the bones produced are the bones of a child, but how they came there, or whose remains they are, there is not sufficient evidence to show:" And whereas Richard Crossing and Bella Crossing, hereunder described, are charged on warrant with the murder of an infant, and there is reason to believe that the reamins above referred to are those of the infant alleged to have been murdered: Notice is hereby given that a reward of One Hundred Pounds will be paid by Government for such information as will lead to the apprehension of Richard Crossing and Bella Crossing, or Fifty Pounds for either of them.
JOHN ROBERTSON.

DESCRIPTIONS.

Richard Crossing is about 55 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, stout build, fresh complexion, blue eyes, grayish hair and beard, large teeth probably some deficient, slightly deaf, rough spoken; an Englishman; generally dresses in tweed.

Bella Crossing is 18 years of age, 5 feet high, fair complexion, fair hair worn in ringlets, mole on cheek near nose, rather good looking.