A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN -MURDERED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, MELBOURNE, September 11. (Received Sept. 11, at 9.40 p.m.)
A constable named Scannell, stationed at Sandringham, murdered his wife and three children. He battered their heads with a pickaxe and then shot them with a revolver, afterwards shooting himself, dead. Scannell had been brooding over imaginary troubles.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13386, 12 September 1905, Page 5
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59A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13386, 12 September 1905, Page 5
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