DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
MAN AND WOMAN DEAD JReeeived Aug. 14, 11.29 p.m. MELBOURNE, Aug. 14. A domestic tragedy was discovered at Footscray to-day when Mrs Sarah McDonald, aged 33, was found dead in the cottage in which she lived with George Webster, aged 35, a quarryman, with her head horribly battered. Webster’s body was found in the engineroom of the quarry with his head blown off with gelignite. Neighbours say that the woman had threatened to leave Webster and return to her home town at Deniliquin.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 8
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85DOMESTIC TRAGEDY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 8
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