DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
FATHER ATTACKS FAMILY.
SHELL-SHOCKED CANADIAN. Australian and N.Z. Tress Association. VANCOUVER, Sept. IG. "William Campbell Phillips, a shellshocked returned soldier, ran amok to-day with a hatchet. Ife killed his daughter Joan, aged 10, his son Eric, aged 4, and cut his wife's face and head. He then sot fire to tho house and committed suicide by cutting his throat.
His wife, Mrs. Lily Phillips, is in hospital, and is unconscious. She saved her life by jumping from a second storey window. On a chair besido Phillips' bed was a magazino with the pages pressed back at a story entitled "The Triple Murder," by Miss Carolyn Wells, the writer of humorous and defective tales.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20363, 18 September 1929, Page 11
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