ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY.
MURDER AND SUICIDE
Press AN.socinii.'n-r.l.ciri.: 'I'e).i;r;ijih—Copyright, (Received To-day. at. 10.20 a.m.\
MELBOURNE, This Day
A boilermaker named Johu Kelly, and his wife retired to rest. The family were awakened in tho middle of tho night by screams. The sou found his father cutting his mother's throat. Kollv rushed at tho son, shouting "I'm mad!" Wheu tho sou returned with assistance he fouud Kelly had cut his own throat. Both he and his wife were dead. Kelly had been drinking lately.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8944, 19 December 1907, Page 5
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83ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8944, 19 December 1907, Page 5
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