HURLED TO DEATH.
FATHER’S MAD ACT.
A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.
•jess Association Electri# lelegraoQ--Coi>yrigliii NEW YORK, Saturday.
Escaping from the New York War Veterans ’ Hospital, where he was held as actively insane, Raymond Spang, aged 3(3, an ex-serviceman, took his wife and four children to Westroclc, near Newhaven, to celebrate his unexpected homecoming, and hurled them over a 400-foot cliff to their deaths.
Spang gazed at the mangled forms for several minutes, while a crowd of ten thousand persons in the park below and squads of firemen and police, who were summoned, stood helpless*. Then he leaped to his own death.
The eldest of the children was a ten year-old girl.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 June 1930, Page 5
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