MURDER AND SUICIDE.
“I’LL MAKE SURE OF HIM!' [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association,] (Received 9.30 a.m.) Melbourne, February 25. Oswald Coutts, son of Councillor Coutts, a Justice of the Peace, was shot by a cook whose name is unknown. It appears that a dispute arose through the cook desiring to leave Coutts’ service against the latter’s wishes. After firing the first shot, the cook reloaded the gun, -sayingi “I’ll make sure of him.” He blew the top of Coutts’ skull off and then took poison and died. ✓
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1914, Page 6
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88MURDER AND SUICIDE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1914, Page 6
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