A SYDNEY TRAGEDY.
_ f EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. . ; .led Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY. Nov. 13. The coroner inquired into the Rockdale tragedy to-day, when Thomas Stan wav, a local tobacconist.. iclated homicidal conversations ol Garnet Alexander Rol»h, who killed four members of his household and then commi t tod suicide. .Robb, just be lore the tragedy, talked of razors and rifles in a most eccentric way. ; The coroner commented that if Stanway had communicated Robb’s homicidal tendencies to the police it \\as quite possible' that the Palmei lamil) might have heen alive to-day. Dr. Egan, who knew Robb at Nimbi n, said he had treated Robb for delusions in 1927. He had then feared people were injur.ng and persecuting The coroner returned a verdict that | the victims had died from bullet ■wounds inflicted by Robb, who bad committed suicide in the same mannei while mentally deranged
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 November 1928, Page 10
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