KEPT HIS PROMISE
A TRAGEDY OF PARIS Mexican Kills Four Children— Blows Out Brains LEAVES LETTER OF CONFESSION [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received June 12, 7.30 p.m. (A.P.A-Sun) PARIS, June 11. During intervals in killing his four children with a wooden mallet, a Mexican named. Pedro Gomez wrote a letter confessing the crime. Then, standing at the window of his bedroom at a hotel, he shot himself, the body crashing to the street five stories below. Gomez began: “I am the author of the tragedy. I have done it to fulfil a promise to my wife, who died three years ago, and I came from my native land in order not to cause pain to the family.” Then after a pause the letter continued: “It is horrible. I have just seen my son suffer. Now I must go back. ’ ’ Gomez must then have gone and killed his three daughters, aged 15, 13, and eight, after which he finished the letter aud committed suicide.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19865, 13 June 1927, Page 7
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