DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
FIVE PEOPLE SHOT. Pros* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, August 30. (Received August 30, at 10 a.m.) A domestic shooting tragedy, involving five deaths, was discovered in a lonely market-gardener’s hut at East Waverley. The victims were Edward Alcock (forty), and his wife and three children, aged seven, four, and two respectively. . It is thought that Alcock shot his wife and children and then himself. Financial worries are supposed to he responsible.
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Evening Star, Issue 19341, 30 August 1926, Page 8
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77DOMESTIC TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 19341, 30 August 1926, Page 8
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