AN AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY.
Received April 20, 9.43 a.m. MELBOURNE, April 20. A tragedy is reported from iVlurTjmbeena. Captain W. H. Lee, l«tely patrol officer in the Papua police, fatally shot his wife in the street, and then blew out his own brains. Lee was recently invalided from Papua on account of ill-health. He "was suffering from fever and depression through want of employment.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9069, 21 April 1908, Page 5
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63AN AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9069, 21 April 1908, Page 5
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