AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
HUSBAND ATTACKS WIFE AND FIVE CHILDREN.
(Received Dec. 1, 9.20 p.m.) BRISBANE. Dec. 1
A domestic tragedy occurred at Sunnybank. A Russian quarreled with his wife, and produced a revolver and commenced shooting. She jumped from the window and suffered internal injuries. The husband then turned the revolver on the children, of whom he shot nve, and then he shot himself. The motherwas rescued. One baby was uninjured, and another lad escaped. One girl died on her way to the hospital.—United Press Assn.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5343, 2 December 1919, Page 5
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88AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5343, 2 December 1919, Page 5
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