A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES.
IN AUSTRALIA.
By Telegraph.—P.-esa Assn.—Copyright. Received June 10, 8.40 p.m. Sydney, June 10. There has been a series of tragedies during the past few days at Leichardt. A returned soldier named Jacobs shot dead Mrs. Rees, with whom he was living, and then committed suicide. At Surrey Hills Mrs. Anderson was shot dead, supposedly by her husband, a returned soldier, who is missing. At Orange a man named Foster shot and dangerously wounded his wife and then committed suicide. In Melbourne a man named Turpenny stabbed his wife to death with a butcher's knife. The body of an unknown man was found on the roof of a railway carriage. It is suspected he was murdered.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1919, Page 5
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119A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES. Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1919, Page 5
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