A Shocking Tragedy.
o(Per Press Association). Sydney, January 20. A tragedy is reported from Adamstown, near Newcastle. A girl named Eleanor Turner, aged 12, an adopted daughter of a Mrs Gray, while Washing dishes broke a cup. Mrs Gray upbraided the girl for carelessness, whereupon the latter gave a saucy reply. Mrs Gray in a fit of anger seized a large table knife which she hurled at the girl. The knife struck the girl in the region of the heart, killing her. Mrs Gray has been arjested.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1895, Page 2
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87A Shocking Tragedy. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1895, Page 2
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