A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.
& FATHER MURDERED.
| PRESS ASSOCIATION.J
Melbourne, January 12. A murder, surrounded with circumstances of a most painful character, is reported from Kerang, a post town of Gunbower, about 195 miles to the north-west of the metropolis. A man named Olancy -was beating his son, when the latter's sister remonstrated with him. The father at once turned on the girl, and threatened to kill her. She ran for protection to an elder brother, aged 25, who seized a gun and fired twice at his father, the shots taking effect, and the wounds proving fatal. The son who had fired the shots at once sought medical aid on behalf of his father, and also informed the police authorities of what had happened, when he was at once arrested on a charge of murder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8949, 13 January 1888, Page 5
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