A REVOLTING TRAGEDY.
FATHER KILLS HIS THREE CHILDREN. MURDERER COMMITS SUICIDE. (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, April 8. A shocking tragedy was committed at South fnvcrcargd! early this Djamil’ Reid Baxter, Seed . merchant. attempted to murder his wife and family. , . Three of the children are dead. The wife and two others were removed to the hospital in a critical condition. Baxter committed suicide by exploding a detonator cap. The tragedy was evidently -premeditated, the victims being attacked when asleep with an axe. Basil, aged nine, Roy, aged four, and Ronald, aged two, are dead. Phyllis, aged eleven, a bauy, aged six weeks, and the mother, aged 37, afo in tho. hospital, hppes ol their recovery being slight. A caller, getting no answer, communicated with the police, who found the victims m b<vl. Rixtcr. aged 43. had a shop m town, and cirri,d on a 1 ; '. There was no apparent mot no Km the crime.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 9 April 1908, Page 3
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153A REVOLTING TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 9 April 1908, Page 3
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