MURDER AND SUICIDE
RARROWCLIFF TRAGEDY. FURTHER DETAILS. ADELAIDE, Tuesday. The Barrowcliff tragedy was enacted on Sunday morning, but was not discovered till early on Monday, when a neighbour entered the house. Mrs. Barrowcliff’s head was badly battered. Barrowcliff was still alive, lying beside his wife’s body and bleeding from a deep cut in his throat. He said lie had hit her on the head once and she never moved. The couple had just sold the house they lived in for £IOOO. It is stated that Barrowcliff was a prominent figure in the Glenrowan district in the Kelly gang days.—Press Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 September 1924, Page 5
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