TRAGEDY IN DORSET.
', FAMILY WIPED OUT. I HUSBAND, WIFE, CHILDREN. LONDON, January 29. A gruesome tragedy was discovered in a house at Parkstone, Dorsetshire. A man named Wright, aged 60, his wife, and their two children were found dead. The heads of Mrs. Wright and the children had been almost severed from their bodies. A blood-stained axe was lying near by. The husband had a wound in his throat.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 9
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