DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES.
SIX DEATHS IN LONDON. (B7 CABLE—JP.E6S ASSOCIATION—COPVKIGHt.) (Sydney "Sus" SeavicE.) LONDON, January 16. Six are dead as a result of two domestic tragedies in London. Alexander Filson, residing at Barnes, committed suicide after shooting his son John, aged 19, and his daughters Margaret and Mary, aged 14 and nine respectively. Friends say that Filson was depressed, the result of his wife's death a year ago. In the second case a tradesman heard groans in a house at Poplar. The police forced an entry and found the bodies of Emily White and her brother Peter, both killed by blows on the head with a hatchet. They also found William, another brother, lying with his throat cut. He was taken to hospital and detained by the police. The Whites were an eccentric family and had tittle communication with neighbours.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18902, 18 January 1927, Page 7
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139DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18902, 18 January 1927, Page 7
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