MAN SHOOTS WIFE AND CHILD
MIND AFFECTED BY FINANCIAL TROUBLES. Adelaide, December 23. Both Battersby and his are in a (SS o“ s'™ “er in the bedroom. She went to.the; cot where the child was asleep and found him shot She them received a bullet wound in the face. Her husband went in the direction of the foom where the other two sons were steeping. 111 ? were awakened by the shots, and ran into the front room. The mother followed, locking the door. Later they heard a shot, and then all was quiet Ibepita arrived U.ey »»d Battersbv on the floor of the kitchen with a revolver by his sl “ e ' f -j The Battersbys were a happy I , ami but were lately in straitenedcircumstances. This apparently affected the “ I [John l Alfred Battersby and his wife and their young sort were found shot at their home in North Croy don.]
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 78, 27 December 1926, Page 9
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151MAN SHOOTS WIFE AND CHILD Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 78, 27 December 1926, Page 9
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