THE STATION TRAGEDY.
[Special to Press Association.] ', SYDNEY, Jan. 14,. Particulars of the Nanima tragedy show .that Elms and Herbert West, his brother-in-law, Md breakfast-;, with- 'the family., •West finished first, and 'went into a bedroom adjoining. He procured a gun, and, placing the muzzle close to Elms'-head,fired;" The greater portion of the skull was blown away. Afterwards West stood on guardover the house, and would allow none to approach, but quietly surrendered himself on the arrival of the police. He simply said that Elma should have been shot long ago. The prisoner added that he would not have committed the deed had he known that it would have caused so much fuss: West has been eccentric in . manner for sometime.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5462, 14 January 1896, Page 3
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