BRISBANE TRAGEDY
POLICE OFFICER AND WO- - MAN FOUND SHOT / (Rec. December 26, 5.5 p.m.) Brisbane, December 26. The bodies of Acting-Sergeant Cummings, a well-known police officer, and a young married woman, Eileen Walsh, were found in a reserve near Bodda Road Gaol. Both had been shot through the base of the skull. Cummings, who was a married man with several children, ended his shift at 10 o’clock last night, but failed to report off duty. The tragedy is wrapped in mystery. DOUBLE MURDER OPINION OF POLICE. (Rec. December 26, 5.5 p.m.) Brisbane, December 26. The police regard the CummingsWalsh tragedy as undoubtedly a double murder. Mrs. Walsh was living apart from her husband.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 78, 27 December 1926, Page 9
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