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Roebourne Bank Murders

Roebourne Bank Murders

The 1885 murders of William Anketell and Henry Burrup at the Union Bank Roebourne and the ensuing investigation and controversy.

  • Home
  • Summary of Events
  • Witness accounts of murder scene
    • by F.C. Broadhurst
    • by W.M. Thomas
  • Police File
  • Depositions
  • The murder trial
  • Newspaper Articles
    • The West Australian
    • The Fremantle Herald
    • The Argus
    • The Enquirer
    • The Eastern Districts Chronicle
  • Motive and musings
    • Prejudice and rumours
    • The Motive
    • The psychology behind the murders
    • My Musings
    • Who did it?
  • Roebourne in 1885
  • Roebourne maps and photos
    • Western Australia
    • 1885 Roebourne Town Map
    • Early Maps of Roebourne Townsite
    • Roebourne and Surrounding Country
    • Early photos of Roebourne
  • Biographies
    • Thomas Anketell
    • Henry Thomas Wood Burrup
    • Frederick Bevan
    • Charles Warburton
    • James Lithgow
    • The Pontt Brothers – William and Augustus
    • Caroline Platt
  • Memoir Extracts
  • Can you help with these names?
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements

Police file – Thomas Sullivan – 8th March 1887

Police file – Thomas Sullivan – 8th March 1887

Metropolitan Police
Perth Station

To Sub Inspector Lawrence

I have to report for your information that on Friday 4th inst. Thomas Sullivan came to me at the Central Station and told me that he had just been watching George McRae to the railway station and asked me to go and arrest him for the “Roebourne Murder”. I tried to get some information from him and to see if there was anything in his talk but could get no sense from him. He appeared to me to be on the verge of lunacy and on my trying to reason with him he became offended and told me it was no use of his trying to hunt up the murder if I refused to arrest McRae.

He also made some rambling remarks respecting Alexander McRae saying that he McRae would as soon see the death as him. Then he left the station. I may add that this man has been noticed keeping company with several loafers lately.

[Signature indecipherable]
Sergeant
8/3/87

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