SHOT HIS FATHER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 5

SHOT HIS FATHER.

•',' CHARGE OF MAN SLAUGHTER*. Sγ Tslejraoli—Press Aesoeiatloil-Ooiiyrlirat . (Bee December 31, <,0.35 am.J " - '"Sydney, December 30. r As a result of tho inquest on Donaldton, ttho was 'shot by jhis son in ciroua- . etances cabled on December 20, tho son las beon committed for trial on a charge ef manslaughter. "■ • 'J-\, Sjdn^y •^ ess , Association cablegram ot December ?0 stated- "Donaldsoi, a wtUer near iLverell (311 miles norln of , Sydney), got into debt wagering on u boaflg contest in which his son was engaged. Donaldson then attempted to 4 ehoot his family, who lived on flio eon's farm. Hβ injured .his daughter, not seriously, and missed his wife. His son got a gun and exchanged shots %ith his father, ihe latter ran avyay.' Subsequently Don- ? Id f on 2? 3 {otlnd dead, shot twico in the tack. Thomson was arrested. , '] ■ ' ( i' MURDERS.,, i ,' BEMAREABLE INSURANCE FRAUD. • ' SUICIDE OF MURDERER. - s Iy Teleuraph-Press 1 V Paris, Dicember 29. «,% S * que Vi. to a , llomol e crime com- „ Bitted for the sake of money has just teen,reported. ' 7 ~ ' In 1908,' a Russian engineer named ' Guilovitch insured.vhis life for .£IOBOO, then murdered a man restobhng himself, and fled to France. ■• An accomplice claimed the money, but euspicion had been aroused, and tho police attempted to arrest Guileuteh lin , The murderer, sooner'than bo taken ( committed su'cido. > ihe' armidale tragedt.-a man / f ARRESTED. ' • -> , Sydney,, December '30. >A man named Casey has bcenr arrested en a charge of murdonng the girl Kelly while she was sleeping in a room in the Central Hotel, Armidale, oil . December ' *h«* n'T yeat - Th ° glrl ' s . git-fa* at IS received from her lover the provious nighl