VILLAGE TRAGEDY
CRIPPLE'S REVENGE.
A TERRIBLE CRIME
EXPLOSIVE UNDER BED
SLEEPERS MURDERED
(Per Press Association.—Copyright.)
(Received Sept. 12, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 12. John VaUghan, a cripple, of Cucoo Village, near Ha vend west, jealous of his wife's supposed relations with another man, placed a blasting explosive beneath the ted blowing his ■sleeping wife and boy, aged ten, to atoms. The house was unroofed, and fragments of the ibed were found in distant fields. Vaughan was discovered outside his house with his jaw blown away. He died shortly afterwards.
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Waikato Times, Issue 12178, 13 September 1911, Page 5
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