DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
HUSBAND MURDERS WIFE THEN COMMITS SUICIDE SYDNEY, December 6. Following a domestic quarrel, William Wood, 42, fatally shot his wife -with s. revolver in a street in WoolJoomooloo and then committed suicide with the same weapon. The couple were living apart, and Wood visited ihe house where his wife was living. To-night a quarrel ensued. Wood drew a revolver, and the terrified woman rushed into the street where her husband shot her in the back of the head. The tragedy was witnessed by a number of people.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 5
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89DOMESTIC TRAGEDY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 5
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