MURDERED BY ARABS.
AUSTRALIAN OFFICER'S FATE.
SHOT DEAD AT DOOR OF HOME. By Electrio Telegrapn.—Copyright. Received May 20, 9.5 a.m. 'LONDON, .May 19. Mrs Tuckett, widow of Colonel Tuckett, has returned to England from Bagdad, whore the Arabs murdered her husband. Colonel Tuckett came to England with tho Australian forces and obtained a commission and later married u naval officer's daughter. Mrs Tuckett, describing the murder, said she was with her husband and their baby, when manrauding Arabs visited their homo during the night. They hammered on the door, and Colonel Tuckett opened it and was alio! down and killed instantly.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 402, 20 May 1922, Page 5
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