TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
FARMER MURDER'S FAMILY
AND THEN SUICIDES
(Australian Press Association.)
BRISBANE. July 2. A terrible tragedy on a dairy farm at Yandina, on the North Coast of Queensland, is reported". A family of six persons are dead. The circumstances indicate that Norman Wallis murdered his wife and his foiir children, whose ages were ten years, eight years, five years and two and a half years, with a reaping hdok, and that he then set fire to the house, the bodies being incinerated, Wallis afterwards committing suicide in an outhouse by blowing a portion of Iris head off bv a detonator. Wallis left a note indicating that somebody was trying to harm his wife.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1931, Page 6
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114TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1931, Page 6
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