DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 326, 12 January 1914, Page 5

DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES.

FATHER MURDERS THREE

CHILDREN. [FEB PBE1?8 ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] Berlin. Jan. 10. A policeman at Hamburg cut the throats of his three little daughters and then hanged himself, owing to a family qnanel. ANOTHER SHOCKING AFFAIR. THREE ADULTS SUICIDE AFTER MURDERING FIVE CHILDREN. Berlin, Jan. io. A builder named Bratz, his wife, and sister, committed suicide at Soklau by gas poisoning. The bodies of five children and a dog were found with their throats cut. The motive was money troubles. Bratz and his wife had donned mourning. A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. FATHER SHOOTS SON. AND THEN SUICIDES. RESULT OF NEROL’S BREAKDOWN. [FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.] Sydney, Jan. 11. A tragedy took place at Double Bay. Mrs. Hardy, wife of Walter Hady, the head of a large city jewellery firm, hearing shouts, proceeded to the bedroom of her son, Alan, aged 21, and found the latter in bed. and her husband dead on the floor with a revolver alongside. Both were shot in the head. The son died en route for the hospital. It is surmised that 'the father shot the son and then himself. The tragedy is inexplicable excepting on the theory of sudden dementia. The father and son, who was an only child, were on most affectionate terms. The son was apparently shot sleeping. Last year the father had a physical and nervous breakdown, and on medical advice visited England. He returned to cope with the heavy Christmas business, but was still suffering from nervousness. He refused the advice of his son and others vo take a Btriher rest.