A TRAGEDY
MAN RUNS AMOK
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyiignt).
(Received this day at 1 l a.m.) VANCOUVER, Sept. 16,
William Campbell Phillips, a shellshocked veteran, ran ainok to-day with a hatchet. He killed his daughter Joan, aged 10 years, and his son Eric, aged 4. He slashed his wife’s face and head and set fire to the house. He then committed suicide by cutting his throat.
His wife, Lily, is in the hospital unconscious and may die. She saved her life by jumping from a second storey window.
On a chair besides Phi’.Hp’s bed was a magazine with the pages pressed back at a story entitled “Triple Murder” by Caroline Wells.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1929, Page 5
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