THE MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.
[Per Press Association.] MELBOURNE, MAY 3. Later particulars of the Dooley tragedy show that Mrs Dooley was a hard-working woman. Her husband ill-treated her, and, fearing her life was in danger, she obtained a warrant for his arrest, and it was the intention of the police to execute it this morning. Dooley, however, broke into the house with an axe before daylight, and after gashing his wife with the axe took her by the hair and cut her throat. The six children, huddled together in bed, were helpless witnesses of the tragedy. Dooley thell went to his mother-in-law’s room and dealt her a fearful blow with the axe, and afterwards nearly severed her head from the body with a razor. He then looted the house, and took all the money he could find. On going outside he met Neale, a lodger in the house, who was running for police assistance. Dooley struck him a terrific blow with the axe, fracturing his skull, but there arc now some hopes of his recovery.
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Evening Star, Issue 9688, 4 May 1895, Page 2
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174THE MELBOURNE TRAGEDY. Evening Star, Issue 9688, 4 May 1895, Page 2
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