A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14132, 7 July 1916, Page 4

A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

FATHER'S MURDEROUS ATTACK ON HIS FAMILY.

DEATH OF AN INFANT.

SUICIDE OF THE ASSAILANT,

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q^tv, r T. aumarunui, July 6. Some time during the night a'erueonTho Mg- dVW^ acted at Kakahl

A labourer named David Teffrpv agea 89, shot his wife with aTpetriE' inflicting serious injuries, and -attempted to murder his six children—Gordon aged one year; George, three years '■ Neal, five years; Jack, seven yearsliobbie, eight years; and Thelnia, nine

AH were terribly knocked about, and had their skulls fractured hJ infant ' <^rdoh,.died this morn-

It is considered unlikely that all the others will survive. ? reyi afJ? nvards committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth bu? s ehet c s tTlf J5? iU ■ ***"* other child slept in one room. The others slept m an adjoining room The o clock this morning, struggled to i neighbour's fence to sumnTon as iSs£ nvS'nA ™ I)aixea Gordon wen* o\ei and found her on a couch bottn^-t^S^ ljin£ at the Jeffrey left a letter, which is in the iiands of the pohce.