SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
BUNDABERG MURDER
BRISBANE, February 5.
A shocking tragedy has occurred at Bundaberg. In response to a telephone message, Mr. James Lomax went to the home of his friend, Mr. Lewis Holden Maynard, aged 67, and when he arrived there Mr. Maynard said: "I have just shot my wife and I am going to shoot mvself."
He then placed a pistol to his mouth and fatally shot himself. Mr. Lomax informed the police, who found the dead body of Mr. Maynard's wife, Alice, aged 55, on the floor with bullet wounds in her head.
Mr. Maynard, who at one time was Mayor of Bundaberg, had been in indifferent health for some time.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 7
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