THE KAKAHI TRAGEDY.
VERDICT OP MURDER AND SUICIDE. JEFFERY TEMPORARILY INSANE. TAURMARANUI, Saturday. The inquest on the Jeffery case v. as completed to-day. A verdict was returned that David Jeffery committed suicide after having killed his two children, being temporarily insane. It will be remembered that on July 7th: last at Kakahi, David Jeffery, a railway surfaceman, aged about 30 years, attempted to murder his wife and six children and then shot himself. Jeffery gashed .his wife's forehead with the barrel of a pea-rifle and then clubbed the skulls of the children. One child died about four hours after the discovery of the trafeedy, and another died a lew days' later.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 7 August 1916, Page 5
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111THE KAKAHI TRAGEDY. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 7 August 1916, Page 5
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