MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18418, 26 June 1925, Page 11

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

BOY'S UNEXPLAINED DEED. (BT CAM.IS~mE<<S ASSOrTATIOK-COrTOTOST.) (AUSTRALIAN ASD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION) AT>ELAII>K, J vine -T>. A ghastly tragedy occurred at C«filler, when .lames Kobcrt Keats, aged-14. suddenly attaekerT'with 'rrk'n'ifeMiwl'v. Martin,"with whom he -was boarding. ■ Having killed her he smashed an airriflo- over the head of her daughter, aged nine, who entered the room. Then he shot himself through the heart with a seeond rifle. The unexpectedness of the attack ami its apparent lack of. motive, have" baffled the police. As far as could be ascertained the relations between Keats and the Martins were of the most amicable nature. It appears that Keats,- in company with Merle Martin,- left school to attend a football practice.' On the way ho told Martin that he had left al school a- number of books which, he would require for homo le-sons that evening. Accordingly lie turned back apparentlv to rovi>a tho school, -instead of doinz'so he went home, ;uid not long afterwards Patty Martin was seen running along the railway line screaming and bleeding Irom her head. Mrs Martin was found to received eleven wounds, on the left side, apparently inflicted by a sheath knife found in the room. The girl so far has been unable- to give any account of the occurrence. -