DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

Evening Post, Volume XLV, Issue 132, 7 June 1893, Page 2

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

SHOCKING AFFAIR AT WILCANNIA. i ßy TKtEGRArn.i [PER S.h. KGTOMAIIANA, AT 1 HE BLUFF.} ,' Our Uicn Correspondent, j JlELßOirasE. 3lst May. Thfi odjourned iiuinost on the body of Charles Nol n at Wilcannia disclosed a tetriblo crime. It appeared that on Wednesday evening Thomas Nolan, tho father of the deceased, stabbed his son witbont provocation. The son, who was at tho time nursing a, little boy, asked for tbo loan of a book. His father said, " I won't le'.id it to you ; I will bttb you." Then ho took out a butcher's knife from his hplt.lheld it in his hand a short time, and deliberately stabbed h« son in the leeion of tho heart. Deceaxod expired in tho Hospital shortly afterwards. Some letnale witness alleges that joalousy of hia son was tho motive of the a"t. It Iranspii cs that the w ife of deceased had been married to him about six year*, and that the old man clnimod hor as his wife. A woman named Adams stated that on one occasion she discovered tho old man in company with decensea's wife under suspicious circumstances. Accused gave evidence to tho effect Uiat his son had always been a bad boy, and had frequently ill-treated his father and spent money earned by his father in gambling- 11 ho had not been struck he would not have committed the crime.) A vordiot of Wilful Murder was returned, and accused was committed for trial.