LONDON TRAGEDIES
DOMESTIC WORRIES RESPONSIBLE. SIX DEAD IN TWO FAMILIES. London, January 16. Six are dead as the result of two domestic tragedies in London. Alexander Filson, residing at Barnes, committed suicide after shooting his son John, aged nineteen, and his daughters, Margaret and Mary, fourteen and nine respectively. Friends say Filson was depressed as the result of his wife’s death a year ago. In the second case a tradesman heard groans in a house at Poplar. The police forced an entry and found the bodies of Emily White and her brother, Peter, both killed by blows on the head with a hatchet. They also found William, another brother, lying with his throat cut. He was taken to the hospital and detained by the police. The Whites were an eccentric family and had little communication with their neighbours.—A. and N.Z,
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Southland Times, Issue 20080, 18 January 1927, Page 5
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140LONDON TRAGEDIES Southland Times, Issue 20080, 18 January 1927, Page 5
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