DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
MAN JUMPS UNDER TRAIN. AFTER MURDER OF WIFE. (From a Correspondent.) ADELAIDE, November 24. Shortly after, his wife had been murdered a man jumped under a train from a bridge here to-day. The body of Mrs Blanche May Bennett (53), of Franklyn Street, Adelaide, was discovered by her nine-year-old son in a wool shed at the rear of her home this morning. Her head had been battered in with an axe. A short time before the body ♦as discovered the woman’s husband, George Ernest Bennett (55), who apparently left the house after the crime, walked a mile to the railway bridge over the 'River Torrens, where he threw himself under the passenger train. Bennett had been unemployed for nearly three years, and it is believed that he was depressed by the fact that he was forced to live on rations-. Colin Bennett, on discovering the body, ran and informed a boarder, Roy* Clark, who immediately telephoned the police. Bennett took great precautions to ensure that he would not be seen by the driver of the train. He crouched by the concrete abutment of the bridge, which hid him from sight, and Jumped on to the rails at the last moment. The engine and four carriages passed over his body before the train was brought to a standstill.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19125, 9 December 1933, Page 7
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219DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19125, 9 December 1933, Page 7
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