A FATHER’S CRIME.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 488, 12 July 1890, Page 3

A FATHER’S CRIME.

HE KILLS HIS DAUGHTER AND THEN HIMSELF.

The town of Foxboro (Mass.) was recently the scene of a terrible crime, a girl of 13 being murdored by her father, who afterwards took hi 3 own life. In the heart of the village lived a family named Cormack, consisting of father, mother and two children —a boy of 17 and a girl of 13. The father had been addicted to drink in the past, but for about a year had drunk little, but had taken considerable morphine. He had worked until recently, but during the few days preceding the trs.gedy remained at homo. His wife is employed in a factory, and worked that day. The son had no work and the daughter had attended school.

That morning the family had breakfast together, and the mother went to her usual work. Soon after 8 o’clock the girl went to school, and shortly afterwards the brother went fishing. The father stayed at home. Soon after the son left the father went to the schoolhouse to get the girl excused so that she could go homo. She was seen to go into the house by a neighbour. After that neither she nor her father, so far as'is learned, was seen alivo. The son returned from his fishing trip about 5.30 p.m., and upon entering the house noticed blood spots on the floor. These he tracked to the front room, where a large pool of blood was found on the floor near the lounge. He attempted to opon the bedroom door, but it was fastened, so he went around to the side of the house, and raised a window.

To Iris horror he discovered his father and sister lying dead, side by side on the bed. The girl had an ugly hole in her forehead and another in her right temple extending through and out back of her left ear. The father, lying by her side, had a bullet wound in his temple, and a cut in his throat made by a razor.