A SYDNEY TRAGEDY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 88, 18 August 1913, Page 5

A SYDNEY TRAGEDY.

SON SHOT BY FATHER. DIED IX THE HOSPITAL. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] • (Received 10.15 a.m.) Sydney, August 18. David Goldstein is dead. On the 10th a mysterious tragedy j occurred in Sydney. A cablegram on the 11th stated that Mrs Goldstein I heard revolver shots in a lower room, land on investigation found her husband shot dead and a grown-up son I severely wounded. A revolver with jthree chambers discharged lay between (the bodies. The son has been taken Ito hospital and has not regained consciousness. The cause of the tragedy is unknown. The father and son had la disagreement recently, and the Blipposition is that they renewed the quarrel. Indications point to the fact that Goldstein shot bis son while asleep and turned the revolver on himself.