DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
A STARTLING DISCOVERY. WIFE DEAD, HUSBAND INJURED. MURDER AND SUICIDE THEORY. BY CABLE —PBES3 ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGHT. Received 11 a.m. to-day. ADELAIDE, August 10. When the police broke into a house at Roseville, near Mount Cambier, they found the body of Myra Francis, a „e',l 20, lving on a bed with her throat cut. Her husband, William Henry Francis, aged 24. was lying on the floor with his throat gashed and both wrists cut. He was stiil alive and was sent to the hospital in a critical condition. * , . , . It alleged that Francis murdered his wife and then attempted to commit suicide.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 August 1927, Page 5
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102DOMESTIC TRAGEDY Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 August 1927, Page 5
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