WITH A KNIFE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17573, 25 June 1925, Page 6

WITH A KNIFE.

GHASTLY TRAGEDY. BOY RUNS AMOK. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. Copyright. Aus. & U.Z. Cable Association. ADELAIDE, June 25. A ghastly tragedy occurred at Gawler. when James Robert Keats, It, suddenly attacked nith a knife Airs F. Marlin with whom bo was boarding. He killed her and smashed an air rido over tlie head of her daughter, aged 9, who entered the room. Then lie shot himself through the heart with a second rifle. The unexpectedness of llie attack and its apparent lack of motive baffled the police. As far ns can be ascertained. relations between Kents and the Martins were of a most amicable It appears that. Keats, in company with Merle Martin, left school to attend football practice. On the way he told Martin that be had left at school a number of books which he would require for home lessons that evening. Accordingly ho turned hack, apaprently to revisit the school. Instead of doing so. he went home and not long afterwards Putty Martin was seen running along the railway line screaming, and bleeding from a wound in the bead. Mrs Martin was found to have received eleven wounds on the left side, apparently inflicted by a sheath knife found in the room. The girl so far has been unable to give any account of the occurrence.