HURLED OVER CLIFF
MADMAN KILLS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN THEN FOLLOWS THEM TO DEATH NEW YORK, Saturday. An ex-serviceman, Raymond Spang, aged 36, escaped from the New fork War Veterans’ Hospital, where he had been confined as insane. He had been gassed in the war. Spang took his wife and four children to West Rock, near Newhaven, to celebrate his unexpected homecoming, and then hurled them over a cliff 400 feet high. He gazed at their dead bodies for several minutes. A crowd of 10,000 persons in the park below and squads of firemen and police, who had been summoned, stood helpless while Spang leaped to his own death. The oldest of the children was a girl aged 10 years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 9
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120HURLED OVER CLIFF Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 9
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