MURDER AND SUICIDE
SAD FATE OF A MELBOURNE FAMILY. Melbourne, March 8. At the inquest on the Davies family, the evidenco showed that Davies and his wife contemplated suicide. The wife poisoned herself, and Davies, after shooting his daughter, shot himself — I'ress Assn. [Thomas Davies, secretary of the Ironworkers' Union, with his wife and three-year-old daughter, were found dead in their home at Boxhill, a suburb of Melbourne, on February 25. Davies and his daughter died of gunshot wounds, and the wife of poison. Davies had been under suspension from the ironworkers' secretaryship. It is thought that worry was the cause of the tragedy. Davios's wife recently wrote to a friend:—"My dear old sweetheart is accused of doings things of which he has no recollection. They will show him no mercy." Another letter said: "By the time you receive this Tom and I will be far away .from you all."]
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 6
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150MURDER AND SUICIDE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 6
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