RELIGIOUS MANIA.
TUCKERMAN MURDERS lIIS WIFE AS A SACRIFICE.
A SAD STORY
By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. Keeeived 1.17 a.in., June LL BRISBANE, June Id.
Later details state that luckciman was suffering from religious mania. lie declared that he was King Solouuin, and must oiler human sacrifice. His wife, to whom he, was devoted, undertook to nianago him. An employee heard him say to his wife : “ 1 am going to kill you, for much as I love you, you must go to heaven.” TMe wife ran out. Luckerman, armed with a rail, followed. he employee tried to intercept him, hut was knocked down, lie saw luckciman strike his wile on the head The murderer returned to me house, and expressed his intention to get, a razor and kill the employee, who lied for assistance. Tuckerman now boasts that c lulled his wife, and states that c regrets that he did not kill his three children. ____________
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 915, 13 June 1903, Page 3
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