Show PRISONER OF AUSTRALIANS News Nes has been received In New York of or the death on board ship In the straits of oC Java of Joseph J. J Gill GUI who York for lor Australia in August 1886 an and last March after twelve years' years imprisonment among the bushmen of or Australia Austraha Austra Austra- lia ha was heard from by his family who had mourned him as dead Gill was the son n of the la late te Thomas I GUI Gilt a 3 Brooklyn soap manufacturer I After Arter his release from captivity he re remarried remarried ye- ye married supposing his wife to be dead I In 1893 the wife whom he last saw in also alo remarried d. d after Gill went to Au Australia Austraha Austra Austra- tra lia Ih a a. letter was received by his family In Brooklyn from the Consul at Sydney N. N S S. S W W. W stating that Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph J. J Gill GUI a to wealthy miner and four companions had been ambushed and killed by bushmen in the Interior of Australia Gills Gill's were killed but lUt he was sp spared red b by his captors and made to do menial work i After twelve years ears he escaped A detective de de- i from whom GUI Gilt sought In Information Information In- In I formation reported e that his wife was dead Gills GUI's thought continually reverted to his old home and In March last he wrote to Inspector McLaughlin of ot the Brooklyn police to ask If his brothers were still living Inspector McLaughlin lin ha found Gills Gill's mother Mrs Isabella Gill GUI at Greene avenue a Brooklyn A brother Thomas Gill GUI has carried on the business of ot the Thomas GUI Gill Soap company since the death of or Thomas Gill GUI Sr In New 7 New York World orld |