THE BLACKWOOD TRAGEDY.
PINCOMBE'S HATRED OF THE CLERGY. Received June 22, 9.4G a.m. MELBOURNE,. June 22. Further details of the tragedy at Blackwood are to hand. It appears that Pi-icorrlbe, who shot Robinson, an' Anglican lay-reader, and was himself s>hot by a constable, conceived a hatred of cleigy through his wife being a lunatic, suffering from religious mania. She w:is released from an asylum as a probationer, hut was re-committed, having during her release chopped off her right hand hecause it had offended her. Pincombe had sent threatening letters to a local Catholic priest.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9122, 23 June 1908, Page 5
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94THE BLACKWOOD TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9122, 23 June 1908, Page 5
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