BRISBANE HORROR
(Australian Press Association) . BRISBANE, March o. Alfred Ellwood, wlio conducted • chemist’s shop i at Auchcnflowers, a suburb, with his wife and two children, was found dead at their home to-day. The shocking discovery was made by a neighbour. All the bodies were in night attire. The mother and the daughter Norma, aged fifteen wore in one bed, and the father and the son George, aged eleven, were in another bed. The cause of death apparently was poisoning Some time during the week-end a note was pinned to the door: “Away for tlie week-end” The police are of opinion that it is a. case of murder by. the father, and suicide, as a note 'discovered in the house in his writing indicated his intended suicide owing to business worries The last;seen of the family was on Sunday afternoon, when, the boy was observed in the garden. .Mrs Ellwood had sufferd. inuch ill health The two children were of a line, type and were intelligent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6
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165BRISBANE HORROR Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6
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