STATION TRAGEDY. WOMAN AND DAUGHTER SHOT.
TWO BOYS ARRESTED. "~" SUPPOSED INTENTION OF THE MURDERERS. 'By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrigtik. .(Received January 30, 9.35 a.m.}_ SYDNEY,! This Day' News has been received of a tragedy at a station near Narrandera, where Mrs. Warby and her daughter were shot dead. The mother was proprietor of the Billenbah Station. Two boys. Clare, aged 16, and Miller, aged 17, who worked on the station, have been arrested on a charge of murder. ' Mrs. Warby was emerging from an •outhouse when she was shot in the head. She died shortly afterwards. Her daughter rushed out, and was confronted by a boy with a pea rifle. She teraod to ran, and was shot twice' in the head, and killed instantly. It is- alleged that the boys intended to steal all the available money, and then barn the house and the bodies, in .order to-'hide-?t3ieir crime. ,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24, 30 January 1911, Page 8
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149STATION TRAGEDY. WOMAN AND DAUGHTER SHOT. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24, 30 January 1911, Page 8
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