BOY MURDERS EMPLOYER.
AFTER FAMILY PRAYERS. (Received 9.55 a.m.) Sydney, November 5. A tragedy has occurred at Spring Terrace near Orange; It is stated that a boy named Duncan, aged fifteen, years, shot his employer (a farmer named Connolly) dead after family prayers, wherein the murdered participated. He got a shot gun and filed through the window when Connolly was retiring to bed. In a confession to the police Duncan said he did the deed because of rough treatment and threats to return him to the State school.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 61, 5 November 1912, Page 8
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