FAMILY WIPED OUT

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1927, Page 5

FAMILY WIPED OUT

A TRAGIC LETTER. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) PARIS, June 10. A Mexican, Pedro Gomez, after killing his four children, the eldest of whom was 17, jumped to a ledge of a sixth storey window, and blew out his brains, the body crashing into the street. LATER. During intervals while he was killing his four children with a wooden mallet, Gomez wrote a. letter confessing. Then, standing :.it the window of his bedroom at an hotel, he shot himself, his body crashing to the street five storeys below. Gomez began: “I am the author of this tragedy. I have done it to fulfil a, promise made to my wife, who died three years ago, and who came from her native land in order not to cause pain to her family.” Then, after a pause, the letter continued: “It is horrible. I have just seen my son suffer. Now I must go back.” Gomez must then have gone and killed his three daughters, whose ages were 15, 13, and S years, after which he finished the letter, and then committed suicide.