FAMILY TRAGEDY
BOY SHOT DEAD ELDER BROTHER MISSING. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, December 26. While his mother was m the city on Monday buying toys lor Christmas Jack Rope, aged ten,' was shot dead in Ids homo at Moorabbin. Shortly after the tragedy Ids older brother, Philip, aged fourteen, left the house, and lias not been seen since. The weapon (a shotgun) had one barrel discharged. Five other young children were in the bouse, but they were unable to say how the shooting occurred. They only knew that Philip bad gone, saying lie would tell Ids mother and the police of the shooting. The father was away at work, and tho mother returned to find Jack lying in the passage. Tho gun had been replaced on the nail on which it was hung in tho father’s room.
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Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 14
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137FAMILY TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 14
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