DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15047, 17 July 1912, Page 10

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

HUSBAND KILLS HIS Wlf|'|l THEN COMMITS SUICIDE. |^1 K.\nmATT, a small 'colliery- township 'fl&ft'ljfrJM Newcastle, was the scene of a shocfei'4| WM double tragedy last night, when Mts : |ijl Kceuan, aged 23, the wife of Keenan, a minor, was fatally the breast,-while-her husband wa3 ; : -.*#MJ|H shortly with. Us >kroaftl||l Keenan, who was 42 years of ,ige, to Australia about two years married Mary Fallins at Kahibah. -'iwiaiSH had previously informed his friends ;Ui%l|j|fl lie had been married before, and first wife had died in England. wore two children to the first and these he had had brought,'out s< me linw aftur his aiVAfll hsis, ,-!«■■ small house of the typo usually .by miners in close proximity to: the-f!«J| j| device occupied bv his wife's people. l&jftM night Patrick Fallins, a brother <a."si|| Keen an, was startled by a piercing and blood-curdling scnsan#|ll||| 1 ing I'vwn Keenan's residence. the house he was horrified to firicMjJ^jg o? lttr"wn hid. "h* V caJled assistance, and the unfortunate ■ was raised ;md carried into the where .-lie immediately expired.' A,h«t-j|; £'; examination of the body revealed a and ugly knife wound ;. the left As soon as it was seen that the : OTi|||f| tunate woman was beyond human f search was made for the husband. ■ , !.: : jBI Tins sequel to the tragedy was in a back bedroom of the house. B' c |§j| the dead body of Daniel Keonan was covered, lying face downwards <> n floor. Hi? throat had been cut pra*#£ ?$fM tically from ear to ear- On » table'near the body wore lying a b,ltL 'knife md a razor, both of which ijH stained with blood. ''''^1111 So far the police have not been.'^|t||f|tfl to ascertain what led up to the tra fl