TRAGEDY ON TRAGEDY. " PARIS,'Aug. 25. ' . A- t rio of tragedies took place on Friday in a small farm at Barsac, near Bordeaux. Tlie farmer saw two of Ids draught oxen fighting and shouted to his son to separate them, at the same time throwing towards him a sharp-pointed goad. Tib misjudged his aim" and the goad struck the boy on the temple with such force that ho fell dead. The father ran to the house to call Ids wife, who put down on the doorstep the baby she was carrying. While she was bending over her dead son. the baby was carried off by a largo hog and partly devoured. When the father, hearing his wife’s screams, loarned of the second calamity he rushed out of the farmyard -and drowned himself.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1920, Page 1
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131Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1920, Page 1
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