FOUND SHOT DEAD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 159, 4 January 1912, Page 5

FOUND SHOT DEAD.

WIFE AND BOY. A NEW SOUTH WALKS -MYSTERY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, January 3. Mrs. Perkins and her ten-year-old bo;, w.-re found *hot dead in their home at Cjs:ii:>. Her husband left a loaded gun nu.: -lie door during a temporary absence, a.i..i on returning found his wife and child dead. The affair is shrouded in mystery. MYSTERY UNELUCIDATED. FURTHER DETAILS. Received 3, 10 p.m. Sydney, Last Night. Investigation has failed to elucidate the mystery surrounding the Casino tragedy. The victims are Mis. Perkins, a } 7 oung woman, and Bertie Gilmore, the husband's step-brother. The scene of the tragedy is a small cottage on the outskirts" of the town.

Perkins is a hunter by trade. He left home in the afternoon. On returning he heard two reports, ran in and found his wife lying on a couch dead, with a four months infant crying on her breast. The step-brother was lying on the floor, also dead.

Distracted with grief, Perkins ran out, shouting: "My poor wife is dead!" A theory, which is difficult to justify, i? that the boy was playing with the gun when he accidentally shot the woman. Being then terrified, be suicided. The two guns used both belonged to Perkins.