MURDER AMD SUICIDE. MAN KILLS HIS WIFE.
THEN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— OoDrrlehi. (Received December 19,- 10.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A boilermaker named John Kelly and wife retired to rest last night, and the family was awakened in the middle of the night by screams. A son found the father cutting the mother's throat. Kelly rushed at the son, shouting "I'm mad." When the son returned with assistance he found that Kelly had cut his own throat, both he and his wife being dead. ! Kelly had been drinking lately.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 7
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