MURDER AND SUICIDE
BY FORMER MAYOR OF
BUNDABERG
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian 4 N.Z. Cable Association)
BRISBANE, 4th Feb.
In response to a telephone message James Lomn,x went to the home of his friend Lewis Holden Maynard, aged 67, at Bundaberg. When be. arrived there Maynard said: "I have just shot my wife, and I am going to shoot myself. Watch." Maynard then placed a pistol to his mouth, fatally shooting himself. Lomax informed tiie police, who found the dead bodv of Mnynard's wife, Alice, aged 55, on the floor with bullet, wounds in the head. Maynard, who at one time was mayor of Bundaberg had been in indifferent health for some time.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 6 February 1928, Page 5
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