A SENSATION.
SOOTTJSH FAMILY TRAGEDY. FATHER'S ALLEGED ACT. (Received this day. 10.15 a.m.) (Sun Cable). LONDON. January 18. A sensation has boon caused In the Highlands of Scotland by the death of rantain John Middleton, aged 40, an ex-officer of the Black Watch and manager of the family's estates in Perthshire. It is alleged that his father Major William Middleton. a septuagenarian. while Handling ; a double-barrelled gun. fatally sho the «nn at the family mansion at Baldarrooh The elder Middleton, who recently had been strange in his manner, has been detained on a charge of murdering his son. The accused man oonapsed under examination and was nlaced in the prison hospital The §on was seriously disfigured by the explosion of a bomb in war-time.
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Franklin Times, Volume 14, Issue 123, 19 January 1925, Page 5
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124A SENSATION. Franklin Times, Volume 14, Issue 123, 19 January 1925, Page 5
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