THE CASINO CASE.
HUSBAND HEARS SHOTS ON HIS , RETURN. ■ 1 ; i -vt -v - c-« >MYSTERY UNELUCTDATED. if ,- • hit j Sydney, January 3. Investigation has failed to elucidate the mystery surrounding 1 the Casino tragedy. The victims are Mrs Perkins, a young woman, and Bertie Gilmore, the husband’s step-brother. The scene of the tragedy is a small cottage on the outskirts of the town. Perkins is a hunter by trade. He left home in the afternoon. On returning he heard two reports, ran in and found his wife lying on a couch dead, with a four months’ infant crying on her breast. The step-brother was lying on the floor, also dead. Distracted with grief, Perkins ran out, shouting: “My poor wife is dead!” A theory, which is difficult to justify, is that the boy was playing with tho gun . when he accidentally shot tho woman. Being then terrified, he suicided. The tyvo guns used both belonged to Perkins.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 18, 4 January 1912, Page 5
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157THE CASINO CASE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 18, 4 January 1912, Page 5
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