A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
(United Press Association.—Copyright.)
PARIS, 11th June. During intervals in the killing of his four children with a wooden mallet, a Mexican named Pedro Gomez wrote a letter confessing the crime. Then standing at, the window of a bedroom in a hotel he shot himself, the body crashing to the street, five stories below. Gomez began, "I am the author of this tragedy. I have done it to fulfil a. promise to my wife, who died three years ago, and came from my native land in order not to cause pain to my family." Thou, after a pause, the letter continued: "it is horrible! I have just seen my son suffer. Now I must go back." Gomez must then have gone and killed his three daughters, whose ages were fifteen, thirteen, and eight, after which lie finished the letter and committed suicide.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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168A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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