A VICTORIAN TRAGEDY.
WOMAN AND CHILD MURDERED. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) MELBOURNE This Day. A mysterious tragedy occurred at Trawool on the 10th. A cabman drove Mrs. Taylor and her twelve, year old stepdaughter to Trawool where the woman stated she was going to nurse her sister. x Subsequntly their bodies were found with their heads smashed in, in Goul bourn river. A hundred and fifty two pounds were sewn into the woman Is underclothing. A photograph of a soldier, Arthur Oldring was discovered amongst the woman’s belonging, and was recognised as that of a man from Seymour Camp. He was semi in the vicinity of the tragedy. Oldring was arrested.
SEQUEL TO TRAGEDY. (Received This Dav at 11.25. a.m.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 26. As a sequel to the Trawool tragedy, Mrs Jessie Brown, a sister of Oldring, has poisoned herself and died ,in the hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1917, Page 1
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151A VICTORIAN TRAGEDY. Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1917, Page 1
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