TERRIBLE FAMILY TRAGEDY.
■A- remarkable tragedy has (says a London "Express" message from Trieste) just taken place in a, village near Aleppo. A family consisting of man and wife and two sons with their wives lived under the same roof. One of the sons, who had gone to a mill some few miles away, aent home word that he would not come homo that night; but for some reason or other he changed his mind, and on arriving late at the housie went straight to bed. * The other son, hearing footsteps, arose and roused his father, telling him that he suspected some one w ras in the house. The two armed themselves and went to the brother's room. The son entered alone, went straight up to the bed, and shot his brother. ' Seeing what he had done he flew out of the room like a madman, but the father, mistaking hjm for the. intruder, shot him dead as he passed. When the old man realised what had been clone he was so beside himself that he killed his wife and both his daughters-in-law.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 196, 18 August 1900, Page 5 (Supplement)
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183TERRIBLE FAMILY TRAGEDY. Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 196, 18 August 1900, Page 5 (Supplement)
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