GHASTLY MURDER

Grey River Argus, 26 June 1925, Page 5

GHASTLY MURDER

BY' A BOY. SHOO'I'S WOMAN AND SUICI DE>. ADELAIDE, June A ghastly trafgvdy occurred Gawler, when Janies Robert Keats, aged 4’ouiftoen. r suddenly attacked with a knife Mrs I’’. Martin, with whom he was boarding. He killed her and smashed aai an rifle over -the head of her daughtei. aged nine years, who entered h<r(x>m. He then, shot himself througii the heart with a second rifle. The unexpectedness of the attrek. and its apparent lack of motive, has baffled the police. As far as could be ascertained, the relations beetween Keats and the Martins were oi -. most amicable nature. If, appears that Kcals in company with Merle Martin, left school to attend football practice. Ou the wvy he told Martin that he had left :t school a number of books which la would require for home "essons that cv&niiing. Accordingly he turned back, apparently to revisit the school, but instead of doing so he went home, and not long afterwards Batty Martin was seen running along Tie railway line screaming and bleed me from the head. Mrs Martin was found to have received eleven wounds in the left side, apparently inflicted by a sln-alh knife found in the room. The girl, so far, has been nnab’c to give any aiccount. of the occurrence.