A BRUTAL TRAGEDY.
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
A BARMAID THE VICTIM.
Received March 29, 12.57 a.m.
SYDNEY, Maroh 28.
A brutal tragedy occurred at Surrey liills to night, when a man named Riley, whose real name is Sexton, went to bis lodgings, accompanied by Rose Arnold, a barmaid, who was a friend of the landlord.
The girl went up to Riley's room, and subsequently the occupants of the house heard several shots fired.
The door of the room was locked, but looking through the window the owner saw tbe girl lying on tbe floor, and the man looking out into the street, calmly smoking a cigarette. Then further firing was beard. Tbe police arrived, and found the woman with four bullet wounds, and her head aimost severed by a razor out. '
The man was lying by her side with a bullet wound in bis jaw, and his throat cut, but he was alive. Ho confessed to the act. Jealousy is supposed to be the oause of the trouble.
The murderer is in a very critical condition.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8106, 29 March 1906, Page 5
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176A BRUTAL TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8106, 29 March 1906, Page 5
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