FAMILY MASSACRED.
A LOVER’S TERRIBLE- CRIME
BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT PARIS, Doc. 26.
A love tragedy has resulted in five murders and a suicide at Grasse, where an Armenian labourer named Dcdjian was staying with his fiancee and her parents, sister and two young brothers. The girl, for health reasons, decided not to marry Dcdjian, who armed himself with an axe, broke into the house, murdered the mother, the sister and the two brothers, and then stabbed his fiancee before committing suicide. The tragedy was discovered by a young deaf and dumb girl, a friend of the. fiancee, who came to the house after the massacre. .She was so horrified that her reason is imperilled.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 December 1927, Page 5
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116FAMILY MASSACRED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 December 1927, Page 5
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