SYDNEY MURDERS.
Police Having Trouble In Finding Evidence.
ROCKDALE TRAGEDY.
SYDNEY, November 2.
The police are having trouble in gathering evidence in the Rockdale tragedy, in which Alexander Robb Bhot four persons, three fatally, owing to the sole survivor, Mr. Joseph Palmer, who is 80 years old, being unconscious and in a critical condition. The neighbours were wholly unaware of the shooting. The funerals of the four victims will take place to-morrow. Alexander Robb had recently developed peculiar habits, which had been observed by a local tobacconist with whom he did business. Robb's farm was leased, and he was not in financial difficulties. FIJI KILLING. THIRD IN THREE WEEKS. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) SUVA, November 2. The third murder in three weeks was committed in Fiji on Monday. An Indian near Labasa was killed by terrible blows on the head. Deceased's brother-in-law has been arrested and charged with the murder.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 9
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