MURDERED BY HER SWEETHEART.
Sydney, July 30
A murder has taken place at Quirindi, George Tofft, while under the influence of liquor, visited the home of his sweetheart, a girl named Fletcher. They quarrelled, and he induced the girl to accompan}' him to the rear ot the house, where he shot her twice, and in addition battered in her head. Meeting an acquaintance Tofft said he had done for Fletcher, and added that he wanted to kill her father, then have a feed and do for himself. Tofft is missing.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 1 August 1907, Page 3
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90MURDERED BY HER SWEETHEART. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 1 August 1907, Page 3
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