DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
(Received July 28, 2 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day
At tho inquest in the Perkins- case, the Coroner found that Herbert Perkins murdered his wife and two children, and then committed suicide while temporarily insane.
Herbert Francis Perkins, 43 years of age, a letter-carrier at Enfield, battered his wife, his daughter, aged twelve, and a baby with a trenching tool; all are dead. A small boy was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Perkins committed suicide, almost severing his head from his body. Neighbours stated that Perkins had boen worrying over a departmental inquiry. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1933, Page 8
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