VICTORIAN TRAGEDIES.
MOTHER SUPPOSED TO HAVE MURDERED HER .FAMILY. By Telegraph-Press Asaociation-Oopyrisht. Melbourne, November 21. Bullet wounds have been found' in the skull of one of the' four Rheeco children, whose bodies, together with that of their mother, wero found in tho ashes of their homo at Walwa, near Beechwortli, a. day . or two ago. There was also a pea-riflo near the mother's charred body. It is surmised that Mrs. Rheece, who was strange in manner for some time, shot her boy while in a fit of frenzy, then shut hersolf'and the other three children in a. room and set fire to the building. Tho discovery of the tragedy was made by the dead woman's sister, who canio on a visit. Tho children's ages ranged from twelve months to eoven years. CONSTABLE KILLED BY HIS SON. Mclbourno, November 21. A tragedy is reported from Moombbin, where'Constablo Edwards succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted by his son, n youth of twenty-one years, who resented his father ill-treating his mother. Tho son has 'been arrested on a charge of wounding and intent murder.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 980, 22 November 1910, Page 5
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180VICTORIAN TRAGEDIES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 980, 22 November 1910, Page 5
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