MURDER AND SUICIDE.
TRAGEDY NEAR BRISBANE
SEQUEL TO BROKEN ENGAGEMENT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT BRISBANE, Oct. 12. • A tregady occurred near Maryborough, but details are obscure. Charles Bayldon, aged 38, and Myrtle Moore, aged 16,- were engaged to be married, but later the girl refused to marry, though Bayldon continued to be friendly.. The girl: was staying with a relative, and Bayldon called at the house this morning with a motor lorry, stating that her mother wanted to see Myrtle. They drove away together, and nothing more was seen of them till evening, when it was reported to the police that Bayldon had shot himself in the • >.-ry, in which they found him fatally wounded, and he. died shortly after. On lifting a tent-fly in the vehicle, the police discovered the .body of • vi-tle Moore, with a terrible gash in the neck and the head shattered. Np- ■ ai-entlv she had been dead for some hours. Bayldon was a returned soldier, and he suffered frdrn shell shock.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 October 1924, Page 5
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