AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
MAD MINE OWNER. KILLS POUE MEN. BEISBANE, November 16. Thomas Coolon, a well known mine owner, after making his will, secured a rifle and shot dead four men —Ber- < nard Thompson, William Broom, Harold Smith, and Wiliam i Brown —working in the various claims $t Mount Coloon Goldfield. He told another man that 1 he intended to shoot five or six and then himself. Cooloon escaped the bush, and is still at large. He was recently engaged in litigation over mines, and it is believed that his mind has become unhinged.
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Taihape Daily Times, 18 November 1918, Page 4
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93AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taihape Daily Times, 18 November 1918, Page 4
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