SHOOTING OF BOY
BROTHER CHARGED WITH ■ MURDER
Melbourne, December 27,
Philip Pope, who disappeared after his brother was shot on Monday, was found by the police at a picnic ground, where he -had just participated in a race.' He made a statement as to his wanderings since his disappearance, and later was charged with having murdered his brother.
[While his mother on Monday was buying toys for Christmas, Jack Pope, aged 10, was shot dead in his home at Moorabbin. Shortly after the tragedy his elder brother, Philip, aged 14, left the house. Five other young children in the house were unable to say how the shooting occurred. They only knew that Philip had gone, saying that he would tell mother and the police of the shooting. The father was away at work, and the mother returned to find Jack lying in the passage. The gun, a shotgun, had been replaced on the nail on which it hung in the father’s room.]
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 80, 28 December 1928, Page 9
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