A LONDON TRAGEDY.
RESULT OP INSANE * By Telegraph.—Press Ann.—Ccpyrtikt 4 Received July 25, 8.55 p.m. i London, July 24. A remarkable shooting case At Kennington resulted in the death of Thomas Barker, a horse dealer, and his wife, and the serious wounding of Private Perry and Gunner Goodson, two Australians. The wife had left Barker owing to her husband's insane jealousy. Firry and Goodson were her lodgers. Mrs. Barker and the Australians were chatting when Barker crept in on stockinged feet and flourished a revolver, crying; "You first, and you, and you." He fired, kill. ing his wife, shooting Perry in the neck and Goodson in the chest. Barker escap. Ed to the garden and shot himself in the temple. Goodson's condition it precarious, but Perry's; is fftvorable.-Au*vN.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1919, Page 4
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130A LONDON TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1919, Page 4
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