THROATS CUT
A LOVE TRAGEDY
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 10.30. a.m.) SYDNEY, February 19.
After slashing Miss Alma Preston in the throat with a razor, Charles Wilson, aged 33 years, stood in front of a mirror' and before the horrified eyes ol a woman hoarder cut his own throat from car to ear. ’l’lie two victims then walked down stairs arm in arm, blood pouring from their wounds. I hey collapsed and died in the hack yard. Before cutting his own throat Wilson told the hoarder that he did it because he loved Miss Preston.
PLACE OF TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, February 19. The Preston-Wilson tragedy occurred at Paddington.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1929, Page 5
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110THROATS CUT Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1929, Page 5
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