DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
DEATH OF MRS BREACKNOCK. Pros* Awocistion —By 'Xelr ffrepb—-Copyright. LONDON, August 13. (Received August 14, at 11 p.m.) Mrs Breacknock has died as the result of her owunds.—A. and N.Z. Cable, Neighbours on visiting the home of a colliery engine-driver named George Breacknock in the village of Brodsworth a few days ago, found Breacknock and his son, aged four, with their throats cut, and Mrs Breacknock in a low state in another room similarly injured. Breacknock left a note stating: “I have taken my wife’s life because I ruined her, also the little boy’s, so that he will not be motherless.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19251, 15 August 1924, Page 5
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103DOMESTIC TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 19251, 15 August 1924, Page 5
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