A SYDNEY TRAGEDY.
FATHER MURDERS HIS CHILDREN.
NO MOTIVE KNOWN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigb (Received May 13, 8.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 13.
After visiting friends with his wife .ind children George Cottle, aged twenty-nine, took two sons aged five and three for a walk. A few minutes later he was found in a back lane with his throat cut and the two children dead beside him, their heads almost severed.
Cottle is not expected to live
The wife is unable to givo any cause for the tragedy although she states that her husband had threatened to cut her and the children's throats.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16550, 14 May 1914, Page 7
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101A SYDNEY TRAGEDY. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16550, 14 May 1914, Page 7
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