STRANGE CRIMES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 118, 11 February 1908, Page 7

STRANGE CRIMES.

i DOMESTIC vTRAGEDIES.;. AN OLD MAN'S HALLUCINATION. WIFE MURDER, S BT rBLEGBAPS' "-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIQHT. Melbourne, February 10. A peculiar murder is reported from Bendigo, where ail old man' named Manning cut his wife's throat. , Ho, then. cut. his OTi;n, but the wound is not serious. . Manning, suffered from 'hallucinations.. Ho got his wife to accompany him to a hole, where ho declared he had buried treasure, and then killedjher on' tho.'.spot.,-'. ; A BREWERY DIRECTOR'KILLS FOUR J V ;. , "WOMEN. THEN COMMITS 7 SUICIDE. 7 , London, February 9. i Mr. F.. Holmes, a\weH-Unown,brWefy, dir- ; ector living at Henley,: was the perpetrator of a shocking caso' and suicide'. Ho shot with'"a "revolver his wife, daughter, and two maid servants; during their sleep, and then committed, suicide. ' There was , apparently no motive. f<pr r tho crimo. , '

FAMILY FEUD. ' SERIES OF' MURDERS-JUDGE' SHOT.' • jv, !• New York, February 9. A reprobate son shot'tho notorious Judge Hargis .%ad^^'^S,cksdh; : Ktiitiipky;?: ; ; , The .judge'was' leader of the Hargis feud against tho Cockrill family over land; ' The feud i hhs Jed ■'to;, several murders,and in every '.the assassins havo remained unpunished, v . V ; STOLEN. JEWELLERY RECOVERED ITsduSTODIAN. ESCAPES ' . Adelaide, February 10. The jewellery, yaluwl at' "£BOO, which was stolen tho otlipr ,day sit f Payueham, a suburb of Adelaide,. lias. 1 beeru'recoWrcd in- a curious way. -'I..'■ .* v , -a-man-cniT-ying -a bag. The man 'bolted and dropped tho bag, which was found to.contain tho whole of the proceeds of tho robbery.; v- • 1 . • Tho man w^s.-upt,.. captured., r .., , , v