TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1955, 12 January 1914, Page 5

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

~,'. FATHER AKD SON ! LATTER SHOT WHILE' ASLEEP, By Tclcsraph-rfcrra AEsocia{ioii--Cci!s-ri.i:h» SVdno-y, Jamiarv 10. A tragedy has occurred at '.Double Bay. Mrs, Hardy, wife of WalterHardy, the head of a large city jewellery firm, hcariujj shots, 'proModcd to Uio bedroom of her son, Alan, aged twenty-one years. She found; tho latter on his bed. and bar husband dead on tho floor, with a. revolver alongside- him, Doth had h<v>n shot in the head. The son died cm tho way to the hospital. It is sun'niwd that tho father shot his son and then shot himself. Tho oauso of tho tragedy is 9 mystery. THEORY 01? SUDDEN* DEMENTIA FATHER A'NERVOUS WRECK, (live. Jnmmry Yl,■;>■."< p.m.l ■„. Sjpdnev, January 11. file tragedy is inexplicably excepting for a tneory of sudden dementia. Tl>« father and his bob;-who was-an only nliiid, were on most affectionate terms. Tho son, was apparently shot . while sleeping. , Last year the father suffered a phvsi. «H and nervous breakdown. On' medical advieo he visited England, but returned to cope with the heavy Ch'-ist-mas business while still, sufforiiwj from nervous strain. Ho refused the advici> of his son and others to take further rest.