TRIPLE TRAGEDY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 October 1922, Page 7

TRIPLE TRAGEDY.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT TAS-

MANIAN TOWN.

BY CABLE—PBEBS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT (Received Oct. 12, 11.40 a.m.) HOBART, Oct. 12. A triple tragedy surrounded by mystery occurred at Swansea. The body of an elderly man named Edward Duncombe,. living alone in the bush, was found in his hut fatally shot. The hut, where deceased was supposed to have a considerable sum of money, was | rifled. Later the dead body of a second man named Thomas Carpenter was discovered in the vicinity shot in the back of the head. Trooper Henderson proceeded to the scene in a car. Nearing Duncombe's hut he got out, leaving his revolver in,the car and telling the driver that he would not want it. Henderson failing to return, the driver went to the hut and, found the trooper shot dead. Indications pointed to a terrible struggle. The supposition is that the murderer returned to the hut. Henderson was surprised and was trying to arrest him when he received the fatal shot. A strong force of armed police and civilians is scouring the district in search of the murderer. The residents are terror-stricken.