SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 267, 7 November 1912, Page 5

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

FATS ER"S DEMENTED ACTION. jjXrRIJSRS HIS FAMILY. jSEK SHOOTS KDSSEIF. JATAX FIT OF DEPRESSION. (Iteceived 9.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. , -nocKim tragedy has occurred at XerraJig. . ... Tm bodies of Mrs. Andrews, the wile o f"a dairyman. and four children, whose S2« range from three ~-, nine years, were found hTa bedroom with the heads frightful! v batterer,. The body oi Andrew? was ir-und in the jplchea shot through the heart. Andrews wis of a deeply religious temperament anc a steward in the Methodist Chorea. He was suffering from depresEJon following on influenza and anxiety orer monetary matters. 'The evidence is that he killed his famjfv with an a-te and then shot himself.