TRAGEDY AT FITZROY
WOMAN- SHOT DEAD. Br Talesrarli—Press Association—OouyrLshl Melbourne, January 5. A tragedy is reported, from Fitzroy. A man named Raymond Victor Dawson gave himself up to the police and confessed to fatally shooting Vera May Parks. Dawson said he followed Parks into tho kitchen of a house, carrying a revolver which he supposed was'unlcaded. He jokingly said lie would shoot the woman, who replied: "You could not shoot a worm." Jestingly, ho levelled the revolver and pulled the trigger. Instead of an audible click, the revolver went off, killing the woman. Dawson was arrested on a charge of murder.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2662, 6 January 1916, Page 6
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101TRAGEDY AT FITZROY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2662, 6 January 1916, Page 6
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