DOUBLE INSANITY.
RELIGIOUS AND ANTI-RELIGIOUS.
DOMESTIC AFFLICTION.
BY TEI/EOIUTH —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYIUOITI
Melbourne, Jiuie 22. Further particulars aire to hand of the tragedy at Blackwood, where Yvillimn Pincombo,"" a miner, shot dead on Anglican lay reader named Robinson, and subsequently shot at a constable, who fired back, seriously wounding Pincombo. It appears that Pincombo concoived a hatred of clergy through his wife being a lunatic, suffering from religious mania. She was released from an asylum ns a probationer, but was recommitted, having during her- release chopped ofE her right hand be;auso it had offended hor. .
Pincombo had sont threatening lotters to a local Catholic priest.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 231, 23 June 1908, Page 7
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105DOUBLE INSANITY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 231, 23 June 1908, Page 7
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