MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.
THE DEATH OF MRS SAMPSON. (By Electric Tblkghaph—Copyright.) iPIH PBESB ASSOCIATION.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 22. In connection with the death of Mrs Sampson, it- is stated that Budd was her foster-brother. He had lately been pressing Ills attentions upon Mrs Sampson, and had been forbidden the house. [Mm Sampson, secretary of the Port Melbourne Labour League, and a prominent Red Cross worker, whose husband is serving at the front, was found dead with her throat cut Budd, a returned soldier, who had previously boarded at the Sampson's '"as discovered in h> 'edgings with a- badlvgashed throat. It ja supposed that Budd murdered the woman and then attempted suicide.]
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10114, 23 October 1917, Page 5
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109MELBOURNE TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10114, 23 October 1917, Page 5
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