FIRE REVEALS A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
WHOLE FAMILY FOUND DEAD IN AUSTRALIA.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, March 16. A terrible tragedy has been discovered at a small dairy farm near Denman, where a man, his wife and four children, the oldest aged eight, were found clead and the house in flames. The bodies were almost unrecognisable when they were found. The father, John Marriott, was lying inside the back door with a doublebarrelled shotgun alongside him. He had been shot through the head, but it is believed that the mother and four children met their deaths by other means, as bloodstains were discovered about the house. Marriott lately has been worried over his wife’s health.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 64, 17 March 1931, Page 1
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