MURDER AND SUICIDE.
\ A VICTORIAN TRAGEDY. DEMENTED POLICE . OFFICER. : By Telegraph.— J'rt'AS As*i>ci*tion,—Copyright, t. MKCBtftTR.VI, .upril 20, A imKAntct, tragedy occurred at Murrain? heentl, near CuuUieid, yesterday.* Captain W. H. See, who until lately was a patrol officer in the Papua police, fatally shot his wife in the street. He thee turn-' ed the weapon on himself and blew oui.httf! brains. • , Captain See had been recently invalided, home from Papua to Victoria, owing to ill-; health, and at the time of the tragedy wa» suffering from the effects of fever, and from* depression, due to want of employment*: causing hi* mind to become temporarily uuhinged. V;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13729, 21 April 1908, Page 5
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