MURDER AND SUICIDE
A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. By Electrie Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.15 p.m. MELBOURNE, Oct. 12. Harold Mathewson, aged 35, and Pressy Warwick, aged 13, were found dead in the scrub at Mordialloc. The facts indicate that it was an inexplicable murder and suicide. Mathewson lodged in the house of the girl's mother, and often took the girl and her sisters to pictures and' picnics. The position of the bodies indicates that Mathewson shot the girl with an automatic pistol, and then turned the weapon upon himself.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12916, 13 October 1914, Page 5
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