Double Tragedy.
A STATSOM OWNER SHOT.
HOUSEMAID COMMITS SUICIDE.
[By Electric Tmt-sguaph - Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.5 a.m.) Svilnev, March 9.
; A tragedy occurred at Cadow sta- ■ tiou in tin' Forbes district, A housemaid named Jessie C:\ttanJ iicli shut dead the station owner, Sydiney Jones, a well-known sporting
; man and racehorse owner, and I wounded herself with a gun. She then took a fatal dose of strychnine.
In the girl's dying depositions site stated that Jones came to her room. She asked him to marry her. and when lie refused she nicked up the gun from the bed and shot him. She tried to shoot herself, and then took poi son. The girl had heen on the station seventeen months.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1914, Page 5
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121Double Tragedy. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1914, Page 5
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