A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
DOMESTIC QUARREL HUSBAND KILLS CHILD, AVOUNDS WIFE AND COMMITS SUICIDE. By Telegraph— Free* Association—Copyright (Received February 10, 0.25 p.m.) ADELAIDE, February 10. A tragedy occurred at Prospect, where a coach-builder named Frederick George Johnson quarrelled with his wife regarding the transfer of property. The wife obtained a summons under tho Married AVomen’s Protection Act, and when it was served Johnson returned home and attacked his wife and two-year-old child with a razor, almost severing the child’s head. Ho wounded his wife, but not seriously. He then cut his own throat. Johnson and the child are dead.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8351, 11 February 1913, Page 8
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99A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8351, 11 February 1913, Page 8
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