ROCKDALE MURDERS
ROBB’S MADNESS. SHOULD HAVE BEEN REPORTED. (Australian Pi ?ss Association). (United Service). SYDNEY, November 13. ’ The Coroner to-day inquired into the Rockdale tragedy, in which several were shot, as cabled on November Ist. Thomas Stanway. a local tobacconist, i elated the homicidal conversations of Garnet Alexander Robb, who killed four members of the household, and then committed suicide. Robb, just before the tragedy, talked of razors and rifles in a most eccentric way. The Coroner commented that if Stan_ way had communicated Robb’s homicidal tendencies to the police, it was quite possible that the Palmer family might have been alive to-day. Doctor Egan, who knew Robb at Nimbin, said lie bad treated Robb for delusions in 1927. He had then toared that people were injuring and persecuting him. The Coroner returned a verdict that the victims had died from bullet wounds inflicted by Robb, who had committed suicide in a sane manner while mentally deranged.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1928, Page 4
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