AUSTRALIAN NEWS
TROTTING MAN SHOOTS WIFE
AND HIMSELF.
(Australian Press Association.)
MELBOURNE, June 30.
Percy Shipp, aged 42 years, a man well-known in trotting circles, shot his wife dead', and then be committed suicide at Richmond.
The police state that the tragedy was the outcome of prolonged differences between them, largely ,iJyer- ; trotting horses in which the pair were interested. *.
POUND DEAD*
A I,E I. BO U R NT/On i.i h /SO
After the fiupigalion of)t)|e,.stea mdr. Marella, two Chinese were, jotmi! dead' in their bunks. An inquiry was ordered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1930, Page 6
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