A VICTORIAN TRAGEDY.
MURDER Br AN OLD MAN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright i> Melbourne, September 13. A farmer named Grant, living at Hor,anam, eighty years of age, murdered his wife by smasbiog her bead with a hammer. Tbe woman was a slave to chloral, and frequently threatened her husband: Through constant watching the old man's mind became somewhat unhinged. He surrendered himself to the police.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 8898, 14 September 1894, Page 5
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