Murder and Suicide.
SAD DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. HEADS ALMOST SEVERED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright} [United Press Association. 1* Sydney, May 13. After visiting friends with his wife and children, George Cottle, aged 29, took his two sous, aged five and three years, for a walk. A few minutes later ho was found in the back lane with his throat cut, and the children dead beside him, their heads being almost severed. Cottle is not expected to live. His wife is unable to give the cause of the tragedy, although she says her husband had threatened to cut her and the children’s throats. DOMESTIC INFELICITY. MURDERER JEALOUSLY INCLINED. (Reecived 8.35 a.m.) Sydney, May 14. On the whole the Cottles lived fairly happily together, though he was of a jealous disposition and latterly suffered from depression. A letter from a relative was found in his pocket upbraiding him for his treatment of his wife.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 19, 14 May 1914, Page 5
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150Murder and Suicide. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 19, 14 May 1914, Page 5
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