MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.
Melbourne, Dec 19. A boilermaker named John Kelly and wife retired to rest last night, and the family was awakened in the middle of the night by screams. A son found the father cutting the mother’s throat. Kelly rushed at the son, shouting “I’m mad.” When the son returned with assistance he found that Kelly had cut his own throat, both he and his wife being dead. Kelly had been drinking.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 24 December 1907, Page 4
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73MELBOURNE TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 24 December 1907, Page 4
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