COLD-BLOODED MURDER
FATHER KILLS FOUR CHILDREN. REMARKABLE LETTER LEFT. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Paris, June 11. During intervals in killing his four children with a wooden mallet, a Mexican named Pedro Gomez wrote a letter confessing, then standing at the window of his bedroom in an hotel, shot himself, the body crashing to the street five stories below. Gomez began: “I am the author of a tragedy. I have done it to fulfil a promise to my wife who died three years ago, and came from our native land in order not to cause pain to her family. Then after a pause the letter continued: “It is horrible; I have just seen my son suffer, now I must go back.” Gomez must then have gone and killed his three daughters, aged 15, 13 and 8, after which he finished the letter and committed suicide.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20202, 13 June 1927, Page 7
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