QUEENSLAND SHOOTING INCIDENT
FAMILY DISAGREEMENT (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian 4 N.Z. Cable Association.) BRISBANE. Sept. 6. Mrs Fontaine, or Fountain, recently left her husband and brought her two young children lo reside with her parents. The husband visited them on ■Sunday night, and aider a brief conversation commenced the shooting. According to the police Fountain told them he bought a revolver intending to shoot, his wife and then himself, hut was prevented from doing the latter, the weapon refusing to go off.
DEATH OF ONE 01' THE VICTIMS BRISBANE. Sept. 6. Dorothy Fountain, one of the Biindaberg victims, aged two, is dead. ANOTHER DEATH (Received Sept. 7. 10.25 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day Tl. Gralinir.c, the second victim of the Bundabcrg shooting.,tragedy, succumbed. Jean Fountaine is in a critical condition and is not expected to mover.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 September 1926, Page 5
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