TRIPLE MURDER
TASMANIAN TRAGEDY
WOMAN AND TWO MEN
(Received April 24, 1.40 p.m.)
HOBART, This Day,
A young married woman and two men were shot dead at Grass Tree Hill, near Hobart. They' were Mrs. Laurel Estcourt, aged 19; Norman Williams, aged 50; and Alfred Webb, aged 55.
Neighbours say that they saw Mrs. Estcourt, pursued by a man, running in the direction of a house occupied by Williams, his wife, and four children, and that she ran inside. Williams was shot through the heart and Mrs. Estcourt was shot in the neck. The man then went to -the home of Webb, who is almost blind. Webb was shot through the heart.
A man has been detained,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 95, 24 April 1939, Page 10
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117TRIPLE MURDER Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 95, 24 April 1939, Page 10
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