Religious Mania.
DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
HUSBAND AND WIFE DEAD. [By Electric Telegraph — Copyright] [ United Press Association.] (Received 9.35 a.m.) Sydney, April 17. A tragedy occurred at Yass. Robert Reidy, aged sixty-six, evidently suddenly developed insanity, and struck Ins wife, who was packing clothes, on the back of the head with an axe. Afterwards he cut her throat with a knife, and subsequently cut his own throat. Both are dead. The murder was witnessed by the nine-year-old granddaughter of Reidy, who is inclined to be peculiar, continually indulging in prayer.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 97, 17 April 1914, Page 5
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88Religious Mania. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 97, 17 April 1914, Page 5
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