MADMAN’S CRIMES.
United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 21. A message from Townsville. Queensland. says that a widower named James Granshaw, aged thirty-nine, a railway fitter, ran amok and killed his infant son with a bootlast. He then attacked a woman, Mrs Elizabeth Nennes, aged twenty-four, with a razor blade, inflicting terrible wounds on the neck, face and shoulders, necessitating thirty stitches. Her condition is critical. Granshaw finally committed suicide by severing arteries in his arms and taking poison. lie boarded with Mrs Nennes's mother.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 538, 22 August 1932, Page 7
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86MADMAN’S CRIMES. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 538, 22 August 1932, Page 7
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