DOUBLE TRAGEDY
POLICE OFFICER AND MARRIED WOMAN. DEAD BODIES IN GAOL RESERVE. Received Dec. 26, 5.5 p.m. BRISBANE, Doc. 24. Tho bodies of Ac ting Sergeant Cummings, a well-known police officer, and a young married woman, Eileen Walsh, were found in a reserve near tho Bodda Road Gaol. Both had been shot through tho base of the skull. Cummings was a married man with several children. He ended his shift at 10 o’clock last night, but failed to report off duty. The tragedy is wrapped in mystery. The police regard it as undoubtedly a double murder.
Mrs Walsh was living apart from her husband.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19730, 27 December 1926, Page 7
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104DOUBLE TRAGEDY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19730, 27 December 1926, Page 7
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