man and child dead
WIFE INJURED VICTORIAN TRAGEDY NERVE-SUFFERER’S DEED By Cable. — Cress Association. —Copyright MELBOURNE, Thursday. A shocking domestic tragedy is reDorted from Stanhope, Victoria. A soldier-settler, Francis Wilkinson, aged 3S, was found dead at his home. His throat had been cut with a razor Wi'kinson’s child was also dead and his wife was critically injured. She and the child had been struck on their heads with a hammer. Mrs. Wilkinson was conveyed to a hospital It is believed an attempt was made to strangle Mrs. Wilkinson before she was struck with the hammer, as a cord was tightly drawn around her ne wilkinson had suffered from nerves, and it is stated that his wife recently told a neighbour he had threatened to “end all this” presently.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 133, 26 August 1927, Page 1
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130man and child dead Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 133, 26 August 1927, Page 1
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