11[Untitled report, Dampier Despatch (Broome, WA), Saturday 02 September 1905, Issue No. 219, pages 308-309]

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A terrible tragedy was enacted in Broome on Wednesday night. At about 10.45 piteous cries for help were heard from the foreshore opposite Messrs Robison and Norman's. Som men in the vicinity reached the spot in time to see a dinghey being pulled from the shore towards the lugger "Rose", belonging to Yee Ah Chun. They hailed the boat, but it did not return. At 9.30 on Thursday morning a coloured seaman belonging to Captain Mills' lugger reported to Councillors Haste and Nick that the dead body of a white man was lying amongst the mangroves. These gentlemen found the body awash with the incoming tide and brought it ashore. The head was fearfully battered about but it was subsequently recognised as that of Mark Liebglid, the local representative of Messrs Falk & Coy and Messrs Friedman & Co. Later it was found that Mr Liebglid's premises were all open, and that his samples of jewellery were spread around his bedroom. Upon Mr Liebglid's body the police found £451.4.6, and in a handbag in a small outhouse at the back of his premises they found £60 more. Some £300 of the first lot of money was tied up in a paper parcel neatly tied up with string and the latter money was similarly treated and addressed to the different Firms he represented. A coroner's jury viewed the body, and adjourned until Tuesday. Medical examination showed that the victims skull had been repeatedly smashed with some blunt instrument used with great violence. It was evident that a horrible murder had been perpetrated almost in the heart of Old Broome, and within the hearing of hundreds of persons. The dinghey belonging to the lugger "Rose" was found to have been brought ashore and thoroughly scrubbed before 7 o'clock that morning. Mr Liebglid was not a robust man, and not at all a quarrelsome one. He kept very much to himself, and took a keen interest in the progress of the war, earnestly hoping as a Polish Jew, that the power of Russia would be humiliated. He has been in Australia for about 15 years, but during that time he has paid several visits to his home in Warsaw. He was known in Adelaide, Broken Hill, Perth, and on the Goldfields, his most intimate friends being Mr Wynberg, a jeweller of Geraldton, who is a countryman of his, and Mr Friedmann, the big draper of Perth and Fremantle. He was unmarried, and had not relations in Australia. His body was interred in the local cemetery yesterday morning. Mr Maurice M. Shaumer reading the service.

It is understood that the police have no satisfactory clue, but it is earnestly to be hoped that at the coroner's enquiry on Thursday morning something may come to light to assist them in bringing to justice the perpetrator or perpetrators of a very horrible murder.

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