ROCKDALE TRAGEDY
ASSAILANT'S INSANITY CORONER'S COMMENTS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Preen Assn.l (Received Nov. 14, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov, 14. The coroner to-day inquired into the Rockdale tragedy.
Thomas Stamvay, a local tobacconist, related the homicidal conversations of Garnet Alexander Robb, who killed four members of the Palmer household and, then committed suicide. Robb, just before the tragedy, talked of razors and rifles in a most eccentric wav.
The coroner commented that if Stanway had communicated Robb's homicidal tendencies to the police, it was quite possible that the Palmer family might have been alive to-day. Dr. Egan, who knew Robb at Ninibin, said he had treated Robb for delusions in 1027. He had then feared that people were injuring and persecuting him. The coroner returned a verdict that the victims had died from bullet wounds inflicted by Robb, who had committed suicide in the same manner, while mentally deranged. ■ - -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16801, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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148ROCKDALE TRAGEDY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16801, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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