SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
GRIM DISCOVERY BY YOUNG GIRL.
ADELAIDE, Aug. 28. A terrible tragedy is reported from Coekburn, near Broken Hill. Mrs Clara Crowe, aged 35, was found dead in bed to-day with a rifle bullet in her bead. The head was also mutilated with an axe.
The woman’s husband, David Crowe, who is a railway porter, was found to have taken poison. Ho is in a critical condition.
The grime discovery was made by a thirteen-year-old daughter of the unfortunate pair.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 230, 28 August 1929, Page 7
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81SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 230, 28 August 1929, Page 7
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