CROYDON TRAGEDY.
SEQUEL IN COURT. / (From a Correspondent.) SYDNEY, July 20. When llie name of Herbert Francis Perkins was called at Hie Burwood Court to-day to answer a charge of stealing a letter sent through the post, the property of the Postmaster-Gen-eral, at Ashfleld, on June 30, the police prosecutor stated that the defendant was dead. The case was struck out. • This was the sequel to the tragedyenacted at the Perkins’ home at Croydon Park during the week-end in which Perkins made a murderous attack on his family, killing his wife and two children by blows on the head with a heavy instrument, and then committing suicide. The surviving member of the family, Marshall Perkins, aged seven, is in a critical condition.
Detectives are of the opinion that worry over his pending appearance at the court to-day, accentuated by acute mustard-gas poisoning received In France In 1918, undoubtedly was responsible for the letter-carrier losing his self-control, murdering three of his family, and then committing suicide.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19012, 1 August 1933, Page 9
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