AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21149, 6 October 1930, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

TRAGEDY AT MAYFIELD. . CASE OF GAS POISONING. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, October 3. Mrs Alice Fishwick, her son {aged eight), and her daughter (aged four) were fpund dead in a laundry attached to their home at Mayfield, near Newcastle, to-night. The room was filled with gas, and the trio were in their night clothes. The husband, who is a taxi driver, returning from work found the place locked up. He eventually broke into the laundry and made the tragic discovery.' He is unable to account for the deaths. Although the mother was peculiar lately she had no financial worries. ANOTHER GAP VICTIM. SOLICITOR’S BODY FOUND. SYDNEY, October 5. (Received Oct. 5, at 5.5 p.m.) The battered body of a city solicitor, William Listner, aged 35, was recovered at The Gap, Watson’s Bay. His hat, coat, and walking stick were found at the top of the cliff last Monday, and a note was left indicating his intention to commit suicide. Deceased was formerly a teacher in Tasmania. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY. BODIES FOUND IN WELL. PERTH, October 5. (Received Oct. 5, at 5.5 p.m.)’ Edgard Francis, aged 38, a returned soldier, who conducts a vineyard in Guildford district, returned ■ home and found his wife and two children missing. Later he found a note in his wife’s writing saying that their bodies would be found in the well. The husband, with * the assistance of the police, descended the 40 foot well and recovered the three bodies in eight feet of water. The wife was recently suffering from delusions, and had threatened to commit suicide. RAINS IN QUEENSLAND. FLOODS FEARED. BRISBANE, October 6. (Received Oct. 6, at 1.30 a.m.) Terrific rains in the pastoral areas of a large part of Queensland have) saved the harvest, but there is a likelihood of floods.