THREE VICTORIAN SENSATIONS.
(Per Electric Telegraph—Copsright.)
(Per Press Association.)
(Received 12.35 p.m., May 31th.) Melbourne, May 31.
John Anglin, who on the 27th of December, after breaking his brother-in-law’s arm with a bullet, fired twice at his wife, of whom he was absurdly jealous, and killed her, has been sentenced to death.
Philip Plaiated, a well-known organist who murdered his wife by cutting her throat on the 10th of May, is now hopelessly insane, and baa been committed to an Asylum.
The mother of the young man named Fitzpatrick, who fell dead whilst fighting another named Richardson at Ulapa West on Wednesday night, died from the shock her son’s death caused her. At the inquest on the body of Pitzpitriok the jury returned a verdict that death wascaused by excitement.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5021, 31 May 1889, Page 3
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