TRAGEDY ON FARM.
MURDER AND SUICIDE; iV-.-h Yv> ■ FATAL END TO DISPUTE. yV' ' -- , ' Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, Wednesday. A dispute between a farmer named Thomas Ross, aged 40 years, of Meeniyan (Gippsland), and his farm-hand, Charles Wells (39), ended with their deaths by gunshot. Mrs Ross informed the police that Wells entered the kitchen with a -gun. Ross sprang at him and she rushed out with the child.
. Subsequently Rose was found, dead in one of the rooms, and Wells in another, with the top of his head blown off, and the gun beside the body;
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 October 1930, Page 5
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