SHOCKING TRAGEDY
A FATHER’S ACTION
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(Received this day at 9 a.in.) ROME, January 30. A shocking tragedy occurred at -...veiling when a middle aged man, whose' wife recently died, lost his reason and attacked his four children. The neighbours were roused late at night by screams and saw him throwing a child from a window into a ravine two hundred feet deep. He then appeared at the window with another child who struggled free, the father overbalancing and fell out. Descending the 3'avine, neighbours found the father and two children with shattered limbs fatally injured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1931, Page 5
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101SHOCKING TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1931, Page 5
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