CRIME IN SYDNEY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1928, Page 4

CRIME IN SYDNEY.

ANOTHER AIURDER SENSATION. .United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Nov.. 3. Another murder sensation is reported to-day. The police called at a house in Huristone Park and found Mrs I Lucy Brock, aged 55, dead with her throat cut, and her husband, Henry Brock, aged 65, with a deep gash in the throat. He was sent to hospital and it is believed he may recover. On© statement says that Brock told a neighbouring woman who answered his call for help that a man - had jumped in a window and cut both their throats.

Another statement is that Brock’s throat was not cut when he attracted the neighbour’s notice.

THE ROCKDALE TRAGEDY. DEATH OF FIFTH VICTIM. SYDNEY, Nov. 4." The death last night of Joseph i Palmer mates the death roll of the victims of the Rockdale tragedy five; I and closes the avenue to the possible elucidation of how the. tragedy was enacted. The affray occurred on Thursday afternodn in Harrow Road, Rockdale, a Sydney suburb, when a man entered v a house and blazed away with a revolver. He shot three women and a man, and is believed to have turned, the weapon on himself. . The four who died then were: Alexander Robb, a returned soldier, aged 40; Mrs. Claude Palmer, aged 30; Mrs. Edith Palmer, junior, aged 42; and Mrs. Elizabeth Ashley, a housekeeper. Joseph Palmer, aged 80, was critically injured. Hitherto an invalid and blind, he was just able ho utter something about murder in the house. The crime was apparently committed by Robb, a nephew of Mrs. Edith Palmer.