THE VICTORIAN TRAGEDY.
RELIGIOUS MANIA. Melliourne. June 22. William l'ineoinbe. «ho killed an Anglican lay-reader at Blackwood and shot at the constable wlm arrested him. hao conceived 'a hatred of the clergy through his wife being a lunatic suffering from religious mania. She was released from the asylum on prolwtion. I>ot was re-enmmitted, having during Jier release chopped off her right hand "because it offended her."
Pincombe had sent threatening letters to the local Catholic priest.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 156, 23 June 1908, Page 3
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76THE VICTORIAN TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 156, 23 June 1908, Page 3
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