WHOLE FAMILY KILLED.
THROWN DOWN hIGH CLIFF. ACT OF INSANE MAN. (Received Juno 22, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YOltlv, Jure 21. An ex-serviceman, Raymond Spang, aged 36, escaped from tho New York War Veterans' Hospital, whero ho had been confined as insane. lie had been gassed in the war. Spang took his wife and four children to West Rock, near 'Newhaven, to celebrate his unexpected homecoming, and then hurled them over a cliff 400 ft. high. He gazed at their dead bodies for several minutes. A crowd of 10,000 persons in the park below and squads of firemen and police, who had been summoned, stood helpless while Spang leaped to his own death. Tho oldest of tho children was a girl aged 10 years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20597, 23 June 1930, Page 9
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