TRAGEDIES IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
WOMAN AND CHILD MURDERED
FATE OF TWO PROSPECTORS
(By Telegranh-Press Assn.-Copyright)
SYDNEY, Oct 4. A tragedy has occurred at Ballina.
John Rankin, returning home from a meeting discovered that his house was locked up. Forcing an entrance he found his wife lying on her bed and a thirteen-months' old child on the floor with their throats cut. The dead child had also apparently been struck on the head with a hammer, which was found lying near the porcb.
The skeletons of two then witH revolvers and a rifle alongside, each with his skull pierced by a bullet hole, have been found in the Gascoyne district. The men had apparently been dead for a year.
It is suposed that they were prospectors, who had been bushed, and ended a fruitless struggle by placing the weapons to their mouths and discharging them. .
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Northern Advocate, 4 October 1913, Page 5
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