DANDENONG TRAGEDY
A DISTRESSING STORY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright). MELBOURNE, November 8. In connection with the Dandenong tragedy a Melbourne firm received a letter from Markley which goes to throw light on the affair. Markley wrote: “I have a mentally afflicted wife I cannot leave. I am a nervous wreck and on the verge of madness. I have lost £l5OO in two years. With the collapse of my own and my wife’s health and mortgages on four houses, unless my son, who is our only support, can get work, I must go into an asylum with my wife and lose my home, on which I paid £4OO. I am ruined, with my home gone for ever and life in a madhouse before me.” The bodies of a middle-aged couple, Albert Markley and his wife, were found by their son on returning from a visit to the city. They were in a bedroom with their throats fatally cut. A butcher’s knife was close to Markley. It was supposed that he killed his wife and then committed suicide.
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Southland Times, Issue 19396, 10 November 1924, Page 5
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175DANDENONG TRAGEDY Southland Times, Issue 19396, 10 November 1924, Page 5
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