TRAGEDY IN NEW SOUTH WALES
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.
(PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, December 26.
At Walgett, on the Barwon River, 480 miles N.W. of Sydney, a man named James Coovey shot his wife dead, and wounded his eldest son, and then committed suicide. The son is expected to recover. No further particulars of the tragedy have come to hand. Particulars of the Walgett tragedy show that Coovey, who committed the deed, is a naturalised Chinaman. He was recently bound over to keep the peace on a charge of threatening to shoot his wife, and since then had attempted to poison her. Coovey, it is said, was gambling on Saturday night, and returned home at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning, and wife and son being asleep committed the desperate act.
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New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 37
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