MURDER AND SUICIDE
A TRAGEDY OF THE TASMANIAN BUSH. HOBART, July 23. Details of tlie tragedy at Crabtree, near Huonville, where Mrs Wakefield and her three children were found dead, show that the house was remotely situated in the bush. The husband is a laborer, and is absent a good deal on shooting expeditions. Mrs Wakefield had been known ,to complain that death was preferable to a life of solitude.
Wakefield left home early on Sunday morning, and returned at 5 o’clock in the evening. The girls were aged seven months and four years and the boy two years and a half. A bloodstained razor was found beside the mother, who was only twenty-two years of age, and had been married five years.
BUCKS GAMEKEEPER SHOOTS HIS EMPLOYER.
LONDON, July 22.
A man named Farrow t a dismissed gamekeeper, shot and killed his employer, Mr Watts, a large landowner at Hanslope (in Buckinghamshire), and fired on Mrs Farrow, but missed her. Farrow then committed suicide.
Mr Watts was a popular landlord. TTi.g murderer was a victim to sunstroke.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8181, 24 July 1912, Page 7
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178MURDER AND SUICIDE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8181, 24 July 1912, Page 7
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