SHOCKING TRAGEDY
HOUSEHOLD WIPED OUT BY DRUNKEN BUTCHER (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cablo Association.) TSKRLIN. .I line 17. The whole of seven persons was wiped out at Dortmund. A drunken unemployed butcher named Blascliewski first attacked and killed with an axe his sleeping wife and throe children and then went to another room and killed a lodger. Dropping the axe he fatally attacked the lodger’s wife with a razor and finally committed suicide. There were many onlookers, afraid to intervene.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 19 June 1926, Page 7
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81SHOCKING TRAGEDY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 19 June 1926, Page 7
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