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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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A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13386, 12 September 1905, Page 5

A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13386, 12 September 1905, Page 5