ROCKDALE TRAGEDY
COIIONFJI'S VERDICT
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright
SYDNEY, 13th November. The coroner to day inquired into the Rockdale tragedy. Thomas Slumvav. a local tobacconist, related the homicidal conversations of Garnet Alexander Robb, who -killed four members of the Palmer household and then committed suicide. IJolib just before the tragedy talked of razors and l ilies in a most eccentric way. The coroner commented that it Staiiwav had communicated Robb's homicidal tendencies to the police it was quite possible that the Palmer family might have been alive to-day. Dr. Egan, who knew Robb at Nimbin,
said he had treated Robb for delusions in 1927. He had then feared people were injuring and persecuting him. The coroner returned a verdict that the victims had died from lmllet wounds inflicted by Robb, who had committed suicide in the same mariner, while mentally deranged.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 14 November 1928, Page 5
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