TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A HUSBAND'S CRIME. SHOOTS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN. Bj Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 2, 8.50 p.m. Melbourne, May 2. A terrible domestic tragedy occurred at Ballarat. Percy Coates, an engineer, a recent arrival from England, appears to have become suddenly mad, Mrs. Coates was cooking breakfast, when she was shot in the back with a revolver by her husband. She fled, and a second shot entered her arm. She ran to the police station, and the police, on going to the house, found a boy aged four shot dead, and a boy aged five still alive but shot in the head and wrist. Coates was uneonscious, having shot himself through the temple. Coates is not expected to recover. Lately he lias been depressed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 293, 3 May 1913, Page 5
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124TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 293, 3 May 1913, Page 5
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