COTTAGE FIRE
REVELATIONS AT INQUEST I Australian and N.Z Cable Aasociatien) ’ SYDNEY, Nov. 25. A post mortem examination of the five victims of the fire at Tenterfield revealed bullet wounds in the heads of all of the deceased.. . The theory now is that Milton shot his wife and children, then set fire to the house and shot himself. • Neighbours state they heard a sound like a shot about midnight, but the niece of Milton, sleeping on the. verandah, and who gave the alarm of fire, states that she heard nothing unusual until the fire broke out. Other testimony shows that Milton lived very happily with, his wife and family, to whom he was extremely attached. . . SYDNEY, Nov. 26. The police are notified from Tenterfield that bullet' wounds are discernible in the heads of all the • five Miltons’ charred remains and the family service revolver was found lying beside them. The fire occurred an hour after Milton had gone off duty at the Tenterfield Police Station. Miltonls. niece, who was spending a holiday with the family, was the only occupant of the household to escape. When she awoke, the flames were too ,ad-. vanced to permit her entering, the house, and she vainly called the family to come outside,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1926, Page 5
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208COTTAGE FIRE Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1926, Page 5
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