GRUESOME TRAGEDY
MURDER AND SUICIDE. WIFE SHOT. ATTEMPT TO MURDER SIX ' CHILDREN. (United Press Association.) TAUMA'RUN.UI, This Day.' Some time during „ the night a grne- " some tragedy occurred at'KaEahi, oil the Main Trunk Line, eleven miles 'south of Taumarunui. _ A labourer, "David "Jeffrey/ aged 39/ pliot bis wife with a pea-rifle and. ■ -attempted I to murder his ' six Gordon, aged one; -George, aged*three;, J Neal, aged five; Jack," aged seven; Robhie, aged eight; Thclma, aged nine.' All'-were terribly knocked ab'tfut, andL had received fractured skulls. -The infant Gordon died this morning,, "'and 1 the others are unlikely to survive,. Jef> i frey committed suicide.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 6 July 1916, Page 1
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