A DOUBLE TRAGEDY
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ATTEMPTED MURDER AXD SL'ICIDE vi tin MS' cdxdition sfjsioi.\s. Per Press Association. Chrisk'hurch, April 5. A double tragedy occurred here late to-night. A man named Smitlicrs, living at Durham, went to where a woman named Jackson was living, and first of all cut her throat with a razor and afterwards cut his own. .le;.lousy is understood to be the cause of the outrage. The woman was removed to the hospital, and at midnight her condition was so serimw that it was decided to lake lvi dying depositions. The man was not so seriously injured, for he broke the razor in the attack on the woman, and tl\l not cut Ms throat to -the extent he could have done had I the ia;:or been undamaged.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 April 1907, Page 2
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129A DOUBLE TRAGEDY Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 April 1907, Page 2
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