TELEPHONE DRAMA.
LONDON. Jan. 25. A verdict of murder was returned against Lock All Tam. 53, a Chinese shipping agent, of Birkenhead, at the inquest at that place yesterday on the body of Ah Tam’s daughter Doris, It), who died from the effects cf bullet wounds. Ah Tam is awaiting bis trial at Chester Assizes next week on a charge of murdering his English wife and bis 17-years-otd daughter Cecilia. Mr John Ellis, a Birkenhead telephone operator, stated at yesterday's inquest that early one morning in December someone rang up the exchange and said. “I have shot my wife and children,” and he at once switched the speaker on to the police station. All Tam was committed for trial.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1926, Page 4
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119TELEPHONE DRAMA. Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1926, Page 4
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