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A NEW ZEALAND FAMILY. PREFERS DEATH TO STARVATION. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) SYDNEY, May 21. A family consisting of a iman, his wife, atid a son, eighit years of age, have been found dead in a residence at North Sydney. They were lying wMi their backs close together, and there was a foottHe of poison beside them. The police are of opinion that itlie parents murdered the child and then suicided. Their names are supposed to be Ba,s*&rd, and it is thought that they are recent arrivals from New Zealand. The house was bare of furniture, and the family appears to have beem in. gtfeoit financial diffioulties. FURTHER DETAILS. ABSOLUTELY PENNILESS. THEY TAKE PRUSSIC ACSID. (Received This Morning,' 1 o'clock.) SYDNEY, May 21. Tlie deceased (Segar Stafford Basterd), a chemist, with his wife and son, 'came from Wellington or Auckland. He was out of work, and absolutely destitute. . Bastterd wrote to the poilce, askiaig them to come .and remove the bodies, aaiidi intknaiting .that they were taking prussic acid.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10244, 22 May 1911, Page 5
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182TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10244, 22 May 1911, Page 5
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