SUICIDE MURDERER
CRIME DURING INSANITY. CONVICTION OF DETECTIVES. Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 9,30 a.m.). SYDNEY, July 20. Detectives are convinced’ that Harry Plaister committed the crime during a period of insanity. Plaister lias been under treatment for mental trouble. - t
A -message from (Sydney yesterday stated:
Owing to there being-no receipt of a response ,to tradesmen’s calls, the police forced the entrance to a Mosman residence to-day. They found three occupants dead. On© Harry Plaister, aged forty-six, had apparently shot his wife, Alma, aged forty, and his daughter,, Alma, aged thirteen, •dead, and then suicided. , The nearby neighbours heard not a sound of the tragedy. It is believed , that it happened on., Friday night. No reason for it is known. •
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1932, Page 5
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