DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES
MURDER AND SUICIDE
LONDON, February 9.
F. Holmes, a well-known brewery director, living at Henley, 6hot with a revolver his wife, his daughter, and two maid servants during their sleep. He then committed suicide. No motive is known for the crime.
JUDGE SHOT BY HIS SON
NEW YORK, February 3. A reprobate son shot his father (the notorious Judge Hargis) dead at Jackson (Kentucky). The judge was tlie leader of the Hargis feud against the Cockrills over some land, which had led to several murders, for which the assassins have gone unpunished.
WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND
February 10. An old man named Manning, at Bendigo, murdered his wife by cutting her throat. He then cut his own, but not seriously. Manning suffered from hallucinations. He got his wife to accompany him to a hole, where he declared he had buried some treasure, and then killed her on the spot.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 25
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