A BLACK DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1920, Page 5

A BLACK DAY.

TRAGEDIES IN SYDNEY. THREE DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. A SEAMAN RUNS AMOK. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 22, 5.5 pan. Sydney, Feb. 22. Yesterday proved a black Saturday in the way of tragedies. Another shooting tragedy oc'curred at Bronte. Shots were heard in a shelter close to the beach and a man and a woman were found dead. Both were fashionably dressed and wero wearing considerable jewellery. There-is no clue as to their identity. Following the Bronte affair, in which it is now established Harry Thorton, a wharf laborer, murdered Lil'an Kehoe. a married woman, and then committed suicide, came news of a sensational street fi'.'ht between seamen, one of whom wounded five others with a jack knife. Later Peter Geary, a returned soldier, was shot dead and his wife was wounded in a house in Surrey Hills. A young married woman was arrested and charged wiih the crime. A, further live shots were fired at Bob Turner, formerly a rhnmu'on boxer, in a house at Ultimo, and three took effect. Turner was sent io hospital. He refused to divulge the name of his assailant. An unnamed woman tvas found drowned at Congee—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. | , BABY'S TERRIBLE DEATH- ! ' DOMESTIC SERVANT CHARGED. Received Feb. 22, 5.5 p.m. Hobart, Feb. 22. Ivy Allen, an unmarried domestic, servant', was- committed for trial on a, charge of murdering a baby. She confessed that when the child was born it appeared to be dead and she chopped it up and buried the body.—-Aus. and N.Z. T*M« A«sa,