QUEENSLAND TRAGEDY.
(bt cabli— pbess association—copyright) (AUST&ALLAH AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received October 13th, 1.10 a.m.) BRISBANE, October 12. A tragedy occurred near Maryborough, but details are obscure. Charles Bayldon, aged 38, and Myrtle Moore, aged IG, were engaged to be married, and later the girl refused to marry, though Bayldon continued to be friendly. The girl w«a staying with a, relative and Bayldon called at the house this morning with a motor lorry, stating her mother wanted to see Myrtle. They drove away together and nothing more was seen of them till evening, when it is reported to the police that Bayldon shot himself in the lorry, where they found him fatally wounded. He died shortly after. On lifting a tent fly in the vehicle, the police discovered the body of Myrtle Moore, with a terrible gash in the neck, and the head shattered. Apparently she had been dead some hours. Bayldon was a returned soldier and suffered from shell shock.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18202, 13 October 1924, Page 9
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