MELBOURNE TRAGEDY
TWO SISTERS MURDERED BY THEIR, INSANE BIROTHER. Melbourne, Diecember 27. At tho inquest npoa th e sisters Cummins, whoso murder wasi reported on December 10, a verdict returned that their deaths wero caused by their brother, who is incarcerated in a hbspital for the insane.—Pn»ss Assn. fJohn Cummins, an ej'd crly man, attacked ono of his sisters after returning from Mass. He smashed her head and cut her throat, and ilhen entered a room and similarly naiirdered hie mother and sister.l ■
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 80, 28 December 1917, Page 7
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83MELBOURNE TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 80, 28 December 1917, Page 7
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