TRAGEDY IN BAGDAD
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COLONEL TUCKETT’S MURDER.
THE WIDOW’S NARRATIVE
AROUSED AT NIGHT AND SHOT,
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 20, 9.5 a.m.
LONDON, May 19.
Mrs Tuckett, the widow of Colonel Tuckett, lias returned to England from Bagdad, where the Arabs murdered her husband. Colonel Tuckett came to England with the Australian Forces, obtained a commission, and lalcr married a naval ofticer’s daughter. . Mrs Tuckett, describing the * murder, said she was with her husband and. baby when marauding Arabs visited their home during the night. They hammered on the door, and Colonel Tuckett opened it and was shot down and kilted immediately.
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Waikato Times, Volume 95, Issue 14949, 20 May 1922, Page 5
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